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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-amendment-regulations-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/636",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-amendment-regulations-1992",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (Applications and Recognition) Regulations 1990 (“the Application Regulations”), which provide for the making and determination of applications by medical practices providing general medical services under the National Health Act 1977 for recognition as fund-holding practices, and the National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (General) Regulations1991 (“the principal Regulations”), which govern the operation of recognised fund-holding practices.\nRegulation 6 of the Application Regulations is amended, in the case of applications for recognition as a fund-holding practice made on or after 1st April 1992, to reduce from 9,000 to 7,000 the minimum number of patients which members of a practice must have on their lists before they are eligible for recognition as a fund-holding practice (regulation 3).\nRegulation 3(2) of the principal Regulations is amended to include among the conditions with which a fund-holding practice must comply in order to be entitled to continuing recognition, the requirements that it must apply its allotted sum for certain purposes specified in the Regulations and it must ensure that employees and those whom it engages to provide services are suitably competent (regulation 5).\nRegulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended to disapply, in the case of applications for recognition where an additional medical practitioner proposes to join an existing fund-holding practice, certain provisions relating to the timing of applications (regulation 6).\nRegulation 17 of the principal Regulations is amended to provide that goods and services may be purchased out of the sum allotted to a fund-holding practice only for the benefit of individuals who are on the lists of patients of members of the practice (regulation 10), and anamendment is made in regulation 19 of the principal Regulations inconnection with the engagement of persons to provide services (regulation 11).\nThese Regulations also make other amendments both in the Application Regulations and in the principal Regulations which are either of a minor or consequential nature.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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