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Health Act 2006

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39Persons performing primary ophthalmic services

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(1)Section 28X of the 1977 Act (persons performing primary medical and dental services) is amended as follows.

(2)After subsection (2) insert—

“(2A)Regulations may provide that a health care professional of a prescribed description may not perform any primary ophthalmic service for which a Primary Care Trust is responsible unless he is included in a list maintained under the regulations by a Primary Care Trust.”

(3)In subsection (3)(b), for “medical or dental” substitute “medical, dental or ophthalmic”.

(4)After subsection (6) insert—

“(6A)Regulations under this section may, in particular, also prescribe the qualifications and experience which a medical practitioner who applies for inclusion in a list mentioned in subsection (2A) must have, and may—

(a)provide for the practitioner to show to the satisfaction of a committee recognised by the Secretary of State for the purpose that he possesses such qualifications and experience;

(b)confer on a person who is dissatisfied with the determination of such a committee a right of appeal to a committee appointed by the Secretary of State; and

(c)provide for anything which appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in connection with that right of appeal.”

(5)In the heading, for “medical and dental” substitute “medical, dental and ophthalmic”.

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