The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018
Jurisdiction | Scotland |
Citation | SSI 2018/66 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018.(2) (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .to which the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004
which is entered into between a contractor and the Health Board on or after 1st April 2018. (1) In these Regulations—
- “the Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; ...
- “the 2004 Act” means the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 ;
- “the 2004 Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004;
- “the 2010 Order” means the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 ;
- “additional services” means one or more of—
- (a) cervical screening services;
- (b) contraceptive services;
- (c) ...
- (d) ...
- (e) child health surveillance services; and
- (f) maternity medical services;
- “adjudicator” means the Scottish Ministers or a panel of 3 persons appointed by the Scottish Ministers (as the case may be) under paragraph 91 of schedule 6;
- “advanced electronic signature” means an advanced electronic signature within the meaning given in Article 3(11) of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1993/93/EC;
- “appliance” means an appliance which is included in a list for the time being approved by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of section 27(1) of the Act ;
- “area medical committee” means the committee of that name recognised under section 9 of the Act (local consultative committees) in the area of the Health Board;
- “area pharmaceutical committee” means the committee of that name recognised under section 9 of the Act (local consultative committees) in the area of the Health Board;
- “assessment panel” means a committee or subcommittee of a Health Board (“the first Health Board”) (other than the Health Board (“the second Health Board”) which is a party or prospective party to the contract in question) appointed by the first Health Board at the request of the second Health Board to exercise functions under paragraph 2 or 3 of schedule 2 or paragraph 28, 32, or 37 of schedule 6 and which must consist of—
- (a) the Chief Executive of the first Health Board or an Executive Director of that Health Board nominated by that Chief Executive;
- (b) a person representative of patients in an area other than that of the second Health Board; and
- (c) a person representative of the area medical committee which does not represent practitioners in the area of the second Health Board;
- “care home service” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2 of schedule 12 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 ;
- “CCT” means a Certificate of Completion of Training awarded under section 34L(1) of the Medical Act 1983 , including any such certificate awarded in pursuance of the competent authority functions of the General Medical Council specified in section 49B and schedule 4A of that Act;
- “cervical screening services” means the services described in paragraph 2(2) of schedule 1;
- “charity trustee” means one of the persons having the general control and management of the administration of...
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