# The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Regulations 1993, Regulation 23: Payments to a member of the fund-holding practice


(1) The members of a fund-holding practice may apply the allotted sum for the purposes of paying a medical practitioner who is a member of the practice but only in accordance with an arrangement made in pursuance of paragraph (2).
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the members of a fund-holding practice may, with the written consent of the Regional Health Authority, enter into an arrangement with a medical practitioner who is a member of the practice for the provision by that medical practitioner of services specified in Schedule 3 to patients who are on the lists of patients of members of the practice.
(3) The Regional Health Authority shall not consent to an arrangement made under paragraph (2) unless it is satisfied that–
(a) the services to be provided are included in Schedule 3;
(b) the medical practitioner with whom the arrangement is to be made to provide those services is suitably qualified, competent and experienced;
(c) the medical practitioner with whom the arrangement is to be made does not propose to spend more than 30 hours in any one month in the provision of those services;
(d) the facilities, including premises, for the provision of those services pursuant to the arrangement are suitable;
(e) the payments which it is proposed shall be made in respect of the provision of those services–
(i) are reasonable,
(ii) represent value for money, and
(iii) are to be made directly to the medical practitioner who provides the services or to the partnership of which he is a member and not to any third party.
(4) Where the members of a practice have obtained the consent of the Regional Health Authority under paragraph (2) they shall give notice to that Authority of any change in the matters specified in paragraph (3) upon which the consent was based.
(5) Where a Regional Health Authority receives notice as mentioned in paragraph (4), it shall either confirm or withdraw its consent.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/567/regulation/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1993/regulation-23
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