# The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1997, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which general medical services are provided under the National Health Service Act 1977.
Regulation 2 is a drafting amendment.
Regulation 3 amends the doctors’ terms of service in relation to a doctor’s obligations where he uses the services of an organisation providing deputy doctors. While a doctor has to notify the Health Authority of any arrangements he may make with such an organisation, he no longer has to obtain the prior consent of the Health Authority. The Regulations require a doctor himself to ensure that the services provided by an organisation providing deputy doctors are adequate and appropriate and that its doctors are suitable qualified and trained and have not been either disqualified or suspended from practice by the NHS Tribunal. There is provision enabling the Health Authority to ask a doctor for evidence that he is complying with this obligation, to alert the doctor to any concerns it may have and, if need be, to require the doctor to bring his arrangement with an organisation providing deputy doctors to an end.
Regulation 4 is consequential upon regulation 3.
Regulation 5 removes information about a doctor’s health promotion activities from the list of information which doctors are required to include in their annual reports to Health Authorities.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/730/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-regulations-1997/note
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