Section 19 - Representations against preferential treatment
106.Paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1997 Act is amended to add “fraud” to the grounds on which a Health Board may refer to the NHS Tribunal a case involving a PMS provider who wishes to cease providing PMS under pilot arrangements and receive preferential consideration to return to the medical list.
107.Paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1997 Act is amended to add “fraud” to the grounds on which the NHS Tribunal may direct the disqualification from the medical list of a PMS provider who wishes to receive preferential consideration to return to that list on ceasing to provide personal medical services under pilot arrangements.