The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Qualifications of performers

52.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), no medical practitioner shall perform medical services under the contract unless the medical practitioner is

(a)included in a medical performers' list for a Local Health Board in Wales;

(b)not suspended from that list or from the Medical Register; and

(c)not subject to interim suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983 (interim order) M1.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(a) shall not apply in the case of

(a)a medical practitioner employed by an NHS trust, an NHS foundation trust, (in Scotland) a Health Board, or (in Northern Ireland) a Health and Social Services Trust who is providing services other than primary medical services at the practice premises;

(b)a person who is provisionally registered under section 15 (provisional registration), 15A (provisional registration for EEA nationals) or 21 (provisional registration) of the Medical Act 1983 M2 acting in the course of the person’s employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice; F1...

[F2(c)a GP Registrar who has applied to a Local Health Board to have his or her name included in its medical performers list until the first of the following events arises—

(i)the Local Health Board notifies him or her of its decision on that application; or

(ii)the end of a period of [F3three] months, starting with the date on which his or her vocational training scheme began.]

[F4(d)a medical practitioner who is already included in the medical performers list of another primary care organisation and who has submitted an application to a Local Health Board in accordance with regulation 4A of the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2004 until the first of the following events arises—

(i)the Local Health Board notifies him or her of its decision on that application; or

(ii)the end of a period of three months, starting with the date on which the application was submitted; or

(e)a medical practitioner, who—

(i)is not a GP Registrar;

(ii)is undertaking a programme of post-registration supervised clinical practice supervised by [F5the General Medical Council] (“a post-registration programme”);

(iii)has notified the Local Health Board that he or she will be undertaking part or all of a post-registration programme in its area at least 24 hours before commencing any part of that programme taking place in the Local Health Board’s area; and

(iv)has, with that notification, provided the Local Health Board with evidence sufficient for it to satisfy itself that he or she is undergoing a post-registration programme,

but only in so far as any medical services that the medical practitioner performs constitute part of a post-registration programme.]

[F6(3) In this paragraph, “vocational training scheme” has the meaning given in regulation 21(2) [F7and “primary care organisation” has the meaning given in regulation 2] of the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2004.]