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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-amendment-regulations-1995/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1571",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-scotland-amendment-regulations-1995",
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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) (Scotland) Regulations 1993 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the recognition and operation of fund-holding practices.\nThe principal change effected by these Regulations is the creation of two types of fund-holding practice, namely the standard fund-holding practice and the primary care purchasing practice. Practices with at least 4,000 patients on their lists will be able to apply for recognition as a standard fund-holding practice. Recognition as a primary care purchasing practice is not dependent on the number of patients on the practice’s lists. Existing fund-holders will automatically become standard fund-holding practices.\nRegulation 6 permits one type of fund-holding practice to apply to become a fund-holding practice of the other type.\nRegulation 10 provides for the payment to fund-holding practices of a management allowance to be spent from the allotted sum on certain management expenses, and regulation 11 extends the purposes on which fund-holding practices may spend savings and introduces a requirement that the Health Board consent to certain categories of such expenditure.\nThe Regulations make other minor drafting and consequential amendments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1571/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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