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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/943",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which general medical services are provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.\nRegulations 4, 5 and 6 introduce new arrangements for maternity medical services and the obligations of a doctor who has undertaken to provide such services. Maternity medical services are defined to comprise four component parts and a doctor who undertakes to provide maternity medical services may undertake to do so in respect of any or all of those parts.\nRegulation 5 also 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 Board of any arrangements he may make with such an organisation, he no longer has to obtain the prior consent of the Health Board. 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 suitably qualified and trained and have not been either disqualified or suspended from practice by the NHS Tribunal. There is provision enabling the Health Board 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.\nRegulation 7 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 Boards.\nRegulations 2 and 3 contain drafting amendments consequential on the subsequent regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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