Regulation 12 Proposals

(1)

A Primary Care Trust may make payments of financial assistance in respect of developing LPS schemes with a view to their being included in a proposal for an LPS scheme.

(2)

Any person proposing to enter into an LPS scheme must supply with their proposal in writing information as to whether he, or in the case of a partnership the partners in the partnership, or where the person is a body corporate, the body corporate or any of its directors, its chief executive, its company secretary or its superintendent—

(a)

has any criminal convictions in the United Kingdom;

(b)

has accepted a police caution in the United Kingdom;

(c)

has, in summary proceedings in Scotland in respect of an offence, been the subject of an order discharging him absolutely (without proceeding to conviction);

(d)

has accepted a conditional offer under section 302 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995^f1 (fixed penalty: conditional offer by procurator fiscal) or agreed to pay a penalty under section 115A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992^f2 (penalty as alternative to prosecution);

(e)

has been convicted elsewhere of an offence, or what would constitute a criminal offence if committed in England and Wales;

(f)

is currently the subject of any proceedings which might lead to such a conviction, which have not yet been notified to the Primary Care Trust;

(g)

has been subject to any investigation into his professional conduct by any licensing or regulatory body, where the outcome was adverse;

(h)

is currently subject to any investigation into his professional conduct by any licensing or regulatory body;

(i)

is, or has been where the outcome was adverse, the subject of any investigation into his professional conduct in respect of any current or previous employment;

(j)

is the subject of any investigation by another Primary Care Trust or equivalent body, which might lead to his removal from any primary care list;

(k)

is to his knowledge, or has been where the outcome was adverse, the subject of any investigation by the National Health Service Counter Fraud and Security Management Service or the NHS Business Services Authority in relation to fraud;

(l)

either—

(i)

has been removed or contingently removed from, refused admission to, or conditionally included in, any primary care list kept by another Primary Care Trust or equivalent body, or

(ii)

is currently suspended from such a list,

on fitness to practise grounds, and if so, why and the name of that Primary Care Trust or equivalent body; or

(m)

is, or ever has been, subject to a national disqualification,

and if so, he must give details of any investigation or proceedings which are being or were undertaken or brought, including the nature of that investigation or proceedings, where and approximately when that investigation or those proceedings commenced, and any outcome.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1995 c. 46.
f2: 1992 c. 5; section 115A was inserted by section 15 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47).