The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Insurance

130.—(1) The contractor must at all times have in force in relation to it an indemnity arrangement which provides appropriate cover under the contract.

(2) The contractor must not sub-contract its obligations to provide clinical services under the contract unless it has satisfied itself that the sub-contractor has in force in relation to it an indemnity arrangement which provides appropriate cover.

(3) The Local Health Board, to the extent it considers reasonable and to the extent it may be reimbursed in accordance with the Clinical Negligence Scheme for NHS Trusts and Local Health Boards established by regulation 3 of the 2019 Regulations, must indemnify the contractor in respect of that contractor’s qualifying liabilities as specified in regulation 9(4) of the 2019 Regulations, provided the contractor—

(a) complies with the Local Health Board’s claims management protocol for contractors (as amended from time to time); and

(b) does not have any other indemnity arrangement in force in connection with clinical services which the contractor provides under the contract at the time the qualifying liability arose.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph a contractor is regarded as having in force in relation to it an indemnity arrangement—

(a) if there is an indemnity arrangement in force in relation to a person employed or engaged by it in connection with clinical services which that person provides under the contract or, as the case may be, sub-contract, or

(b) for its qualifying liabilities specified in regulation 9(4) of the 2019 Regulations, to the extent provided for under sub-paragraph (3).

(5) In this paragraph—

“the 2019 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2019”) means the National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) (Wales) Regulations 2019(1);

“appropriate cover” (“yswiriant priodol”) means cover against liabilities that may be incurred by the contractor in the performance of clinical services under the contract, which is appropriate, having regard to the nature and extent of the risks in the performance of such services;

“indemnity arrangement” (“trefniant indemniad”) means a contract of insurance or other arrangement made for the purpose of indemnifying the contractor.

(1)

S.I. 2019/422 (W. 97).