The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2004 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends regulation 2 of the principal Regulations to provide further definitions in Part 2.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 4 of the principal Regulations by inserting new requirements relating to indemnity arrangements.

Regulations 3 and 5 update references to the Police Act 1997 and make provisions in relation to Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

Regulation 3(9) extends the scope of regulation 4(4)(g) of the principal Regulations. Regulation 4(4)(g) now captures proceedings in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 4A of the principal Regulations. Regulation 4 amends the information that a performer who is already listed on a Primary Care Organisation’s performers list is required to provide. Regulation 4 also makes consequential amendments.

Regulation 6 amends regulation 23A of the principal Regulations and amends the information to be provided by medical practitioners.

Regulation 7 makes minor amendments to the principal Regulations and the grounds for mandatory removal by a Local Health Board of a medical practitioner from its medical performers list.

Regulations 8 and 9 amend Part 4 of the principal Regulations by updating references and definitions.

Regulation 10 amends regulation 30 of the principal Regulations in relation the specific information that dentists must provide.

Regulation 10(4) inserts a new regulation 30A into the principal Regulations, which makes provision for how dental practitioners who are already listed on a dental performers list in Wales, England, Scotland or Northern Ireland are to apply to be included in a dental performers list in Wales and specifies what information is to accompany such an application.

Regulations 11 and 12 make consequential amendments in relation to dental foundation training.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.