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

Cessation of health service body status

12.—(1) A contractor ceases to be a health service body for the purposes of section 7 of the Act (NHS contracts) if the contract terminates.

(2) Where, by virtue of paragraph (1), a contractor ceases to be a health service body in relation to a contract (“the relevant contract”), the contractor is to continue to be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of any other NHS contract to which it became a party between the date on which it became a health service body in relation to the relevant contract and the date on which it ceased to be regarded as a health service body for the purposes of that contract (but it ceases to be a health service body for the purposes of such other NHS contract on the termination of that contract).

(3) Where—

(a)a contractor ceases to be regarded as a health service body in relation to a contract by reason of either paragraph (1) or a variation of the contract by virtue of regulation 11(1), and

(b)the contractor or the Local Health Board—

(i)has referred any matter to the NHS dispute resolution procedure before the contractor ceases to be a health service body, or

(ii)refers any matter that occurred during the period when the contractor was regarded as a health service body to the NHS dispute resolution procedure, in accordance with paragraph 106 of Schedule 3, after it ceases to be a health service body,

the contractor is to continue to be regarded as a health service body (and accordingly the contract is to continue to be regarded as an NHS contract) for the purposes of the consideration and determination of the dispute.

(4) Where a contractor continues to be regarded as a health service body by virtue of regulation 12(3) for the purposes of the NHS dispute resolution procedure, the contractor ceases to be regarded as a health service body for those purposes on the conclusion of that procedure.