The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Constitution and Functions) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Functions) Regulations 2013

Transitional provision – the Information Centre

33.—(1) An application submitted to the Authority to have a quality indicator included in a library of quality indicators published by the Authority(1) before the relevant date, is to be treated, on and after the relevant date, as an application made pursuant to regulation 26.

(2) Where, before the relevant date, arrangements have been made for persons identified by the Secretary of State to assess and if appropriate, approve, an application described in paragraph (1) for inclusion in the library of quality indicators described in that paragraph, those persons are to be treated in respect of that application as persons identified by the Secretary of State or the Board pursuant to regulation 27(1) and (2).

(3) Any quality indicator described in an application to which paragraph (1) applies which is approved for inclusion in a library of quality indicators described in paragraph (1) is to be treated, on and after the relevant date, as if it were a quality indicator approved for inclusion in the library referred to in regulation 29 and to which regulations 29 and 30 apply.

(4) Where, before the relevant date, the Authority—

(a) has received an application from a Primary Care Trust for a prescribing number to be issued to the Primary Care Trust in respect of a general medical practitioner whose name is included in a performers list prepared by the Primary Care Trust; but

(b) has not issued, or assigned, a prescribing number in respect of the general medical practitioner to whom the application relates,

the Information Centre shall treat the application as a request from the Board pursuant to regulation 31(1) and regulation 31(2) to (5) shall apply.

(5) Anything done by the Authority before the relevant date, pursuant to a direction of the Secretary of State in the 2005 Directions in relation to a database of quality indicators, is to be treated, on and after the relevant date, as having been done by the Information Centre in pursuance of its functions in relation to the database of quality indicators described in regulation 25.

(6) A recommendation made by persons identified by the Secretary of State to assess and if appropriate, approve, an application described in paragraph (1) for inclusion in a library of quality indicators described in that paragraph before the relevant date, is to be treated, on and after the relevant date, as a recommendation for the purpose of enabling a proposer to revise the proposer’s application made pursuant to regulation 27(3).

(7) A quality indicator included in a library of quality indicators published by the Authority before the relevant date, is to be treated, on and after the relevant date, as a quality indicator to which regulations 25, 29 and 30 apply.

(1)

See paragraph 2(h) of the 2005 Directions.