# The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1999, 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 1992 Regulations”), which regulate the terms on which general medical services are provided under the National Health Service Act 1977.
Two new definitions are inserted in regulation 2 of the 1992 Regulations (regulation 1).
New paragraph 28A in Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations (inserted by regulation 2) imposes an obligation on GPs to notify the relevant Health Authority when the employs, or ceases to employ, a nurse prescriber whose functions include prescribing in his practice, or when the functions of a nurse prescriber whom he already employs are extended to include, or changed so as not to include, prescribing. He is also under an obligation to notify the Health Authority when he becomes aware that a nurse prescriber in his practice has been removed or suspended from the professional register. The information the doctor shall provide in each event is specified.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/326/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-regulations-1999/note
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