The National Health Service (Clinical Commissioning Groups) Regulations 2012

CCG membership requirement

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 14A(3) and (4) of the 2006 Act(1) (meaning of “provider of primary medical services”) the prescribed description of primary medical services is: essential primary medical services to registered patients during core hours.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

“core hours” means—

(a)

the period beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 6.30 p.m. on any day from Monday to Friday except Good Friday, Christmas Day or any day specified or proclaimed as a bank holiday in England and Wales pursuant to section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(2), or

(b)

(in the case of primary medical services arrangements) the period defined as core hours in those arrangements;

“essential primary medical services” means the services described in regulation 15(3), (5), (6) and (8) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004(3) (essential services);

“registered patient” means—

(a)

a person who is recorded by the Board as being on the provider’s list of patients, or

(b)

a person whom the provider has accepted for inclusion on its list of patients (whether or not notification of that acceptance has been received by the Board) and who has not been the subject of a notification by the Board to the provider as having ceased to be on that list.

(3) In paragraph (b) of the definition of “core hours” in paragraph (2), “primary medical services arrangements” means—

(a) until the date on which section 34 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012(4) (which abolishes Primary Care Trusts) comes into force, arrangements made by a Primary Care Trust under section 83(2)(b) of the 2006 Act (primary medical services),

(b) on and after that date, arrangements previously made under section 83(2)(b) of the 2006 Act which continue to have effect, and arrangements made by the Board under section 83(2) of the 2006 Act.

(4) In the definition of “registered patient” in paragraph (2), until the date on which section 34 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 comes into force, references to “the Board” are to be construed as references to “a Primary Care Trust”.

(1)

Section 14A(3) of the 2006 Act provides that for the purposes of Chapter A2 of the 2006 Act, a “provider of primary medical services” is a person who is a party to an arrangement mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of section 14A(4) of that Act to provide, or for the provision of, primary medical services of a prescribed description. Chapter A2, including section 14A, is inserted by section 25(1) of the 2012 Act.

(2)

1971 c. 80.

(3)

S.I. 2004/291, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(4)

Paragraph 30(2) of Schedule 4 to the 2012 Act substitutes subsections (1) and (2) of section 83 of the 2006 Act in consequence of the abolition of Primary Care Trusts.