The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002

Supplementary Lists

3.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), for the purposes of paragraph 2(1)(b), where an existing practitioner’s name is included in an old list prepared under section 43D of the Act (supplementary lists), the Primary Care Trusts whose locality (or part thereof) falls within the locality of the Health Authority which prepared that old list shall request that the existing practitioner specifies in which one of those Trusts' corresponding lists prepared under that section he wishes to be included.

(2) If an existing practitioner—

(a) specifies, before 17th October 2002, which corresponding list he wishes to be included in, he shall be included in that corresponding list;

(b) does not specify before that date which corresponding list he wishes to be included in—

(i) the Primary Care Trusts specified in sub-paragraph (1) shall, before 24th October 2002, determine among themselves on which one of those lists he is to be included;

(ii) if those Primary Care Trusts have not made a determination pursuant to head (i), they shall so inform the relevant Strategic Health Authority by 25th October 2002, and that Strategic Health Authority shall determine, by 31st October 2002, on which one of those lists that existing practitioner is to be included.

(3) The provisions of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Supplementary List) Regulations 2001(1) shall be modified so that any existing practitioner, in respect of whom the process provided for in paragraph 3(2) has not yet been concluded, shall be, from the relevant date until that process is concluded, deemed to be included in the supplementary list of a Primary Care Trust that is nominated for that purpose by the relevant Strategic Health Authority from amongst the Primary Care Trusts within its locality.

(4) The Primary Care Trust, in whose list the name of an existing practitioner is to be included following the procedure provided for in sub-paragraph (2)(b), shall inform the practitioner that he is included in their corresponding list.

(1)

S.I. 2001/3740, amended by S.I. 2002/848 and S.I. 2002/1920.