Explanatory note

These Regulations make amendments to the National Health Service (Fund-Holding -Practices) (Scotland) Regulations 1993 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended to permit a person other than a member of the practice to represent the practice in an appeal to the Secretary of State against a refusal of recognition as a fund-holding practice by a Health Board. Drafting amendments are made to regulations 6 and 17 of the principal Regulations.

A new paragraph is inserted in regulation 20 of the principal Regulations to make clear that in exercising their purchasing decisions the members of a fund-holding practice may take into account the possible benefit to all their patients of making savings.

A new Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations is substituted detailing the services in respect of which a member of a fund-holding practice may receive payment pursuant to an arrangement under regulation 18 of the principal Regulations.