PART VIGENERAL HEALTH SERVICES

F5 Persons performing primary medical services

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Persons performing primary medical servicesF157G

1

Regulations may provide that a health care professional of a prescribed description may not perform any primary medical service for which a Health and Social Services Board is responsible unless that professional is included in a list maintained under the regulations F2by F6the Department .

2

For the purposes of this Article—

a

“health care professional” has the same meaning as in Article 15C;

b

F7the Department is responsible for a primary medical service if it provides the service, or secures provision of the service, under or by virtue of Article 56.

3

Regulations under paragraph (1) may make provision in relation to such lists and in particular as to—

a

the preparation, maintenance and publication of a list;

b

eligibility for inclusion in a list;

c

applications for inclusion (including provision F3. . . for the procedure for applications and the documents to be supplied on application);

d

the grounds on which an application for inclusion may or must be granted or refused;

e

requirements with which a person included in a list must comply (including the declaration of financial interests and gifts and other benefits);

f

suspension or removal from a list or references to the Tribunal (including the grounds for and consequences of suspension or removal, or reference);

g

circumstances in which a person included in a list may not withdraw from it;

h

payments to be made in respect of a person suspended from the list (including provision for the amount of, or the method of calculating, the payment to be determined by the Department, or a person appointed by it);

i

the criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations;

j

appeals F9to a prescribed body against decisions made by F8the Department under the regulations;

k

disclosure of information about applicants for inclusion, refusals of applications, or suspensions, removals or references.

F43A

Regulations under paragraph (1) may, in particular, also provide for—

a

a person's inclusion or continued inclusion in a list to be subject to conditions determined by F10the Department ;

b

F10the Department to vary the conditions or impose different ones;

c

the consequences of failing to comply with a condition (including removal from a list);

d

the review by a Board of decisions made by it by virtue of the regulations.

3B

The imposition of such conditions may be with a view to—

a

preventing any prejudice to the efficiency of the services to which the list relates, or

b

preventing fraud.

F113C

Regulations making provision as to the matters referred to in paragraph (3)(j) may make provision—

a

as to the members of the body, including the terms and conditions of their appointment;

b

for the payment of fees and allowances to members of the body.

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