Regulation 17 Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (conditions for continuing recognition as a fund-holding practice) is amended as follows.

For paragraphs 1 and 2 there are substituted—

“1

Subject to paragraph 2, there are—

(a)

in the case of a community fund-holding practice, at least 3,000 patients; or

(b)

in the case of a standard fund-holding practice, at least 5,000 patients,

on the lists of patients of the members of the practice or, in the opinion of the RegionalHealth Authority, it is likely that there will be at least that many patients on those lists by 1st April following the date on which it came to the notice of the Regional Health Authority that the number of patients on those lists was less than 3,000 or, as the case may be, 5,000.”.