The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

Reports by Board to Medical Practices Committee

10.—(1) A Board shall once in every year or at such more frequent intervals as the Committee may require, provide the Committee with such information as may be required by it to enable it to judge the adequacy of the medical services in the area of the Board, or any part thereof, and the Committee may determine that an additional doctor is required in any part of the area of the Board.

(2) When a Board receives notice of the death of a doctor on the medical list or of the withdrawal or removal of a doctor from the medical list (otherwise than in a case where the doctor has given notice of desire to exchange his practice under regulation 12 or the doctor is in relation to the practice a doctor appointed under regulation 24), the Board shall, not later than 14 days after the date of receipt of such notice, inform the Committee and shall, after consultation with the Area Medical Committee, furnish to the Committee a report as to the need for filling the vacancy and the Committee shall determine whether the vacancy should be filled.

(3) Where the Committee decides that under paragraph (1) there is need for an additional doctor or under paragraph (2) that a vacancy should be filled, it shall direct the Board in writing to that effect.

(4) In regulations 11 and 14 the expression “vacancy” means a requirement for—

(a) an additional doctor as determined by the Committee under paragraph (1); or

(b) a doctor to succeed to a doctor following a determination by the Committee under paragraph (2).