Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations 1982 which prescribe procedures relating to the appointment of consultants.
These Regulations in addition to making some minor and consequential amendments make the following changes of substance:
they amend definitions in regulation 2(1) of the 1982 Regulations and also insert new definitions therein (regulation 2(2));
they add a further class of appointment to the exempted appointments specified in regulation 4(1) of the 1982 Regulations (regulation 2(3));
they add or include, as the case may be, general managers as members of Advisory Appointments Committees (regulations 2(5), 2(7), 2(8) and new Schedules 1A, 1B and 1C);
they provide in a new paragraph 6A which is inserted into Schedule 4 to the 1982 Regulations (general provisions applying in all cases) for specified officers of Authorities acting jointly to be entitled to attend at and to participate to a specified extent in the meeting of the Advisory Appointments Committee (regulation 2(9)(d));
they provide for the appointment of Regional Directors of Public Health, for Directors of Public Health of District Health Authorities and for consultants in public health medicine (new Schedules 1A and 1B);
they provide for making whole-time appointments in which the duties of the post are to consist of duties partly as a consultant in communicable disease control and partly as a consultant in a hospital or group of hospitals (new Schedule 1B);
they provide for appointments by the Special Hospitals Service Authority (new Schedule 1C).