Regulation 7A Removal of returning practitioner after delayed checksF1

(1)

This regulation applies where F2NHS England has decided to include a returning practitioner in a performers list.

(2)

NHS England must remove the returning practitioner from the performers list at the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the date of the decision to include them in the list, unless NHS England has before the end of that period—

(a)

carried out the checks referred to in regulation 5(1)(b) and (c) that would apply to any other Practitioner, and

(b)

obtained from the returning practitioner any further information it has sought under regulation 5(2).

(3)

NHS England must remove the returning practitioner from the performers list if the checks and information referred to in paragraph (2)—

(a)

lead to the disclosure of new information to NHS England, and

(b)

if NHS England had received that information before deciding to include the returning practitioner in a performers list, it would have refused to include the returning practitioner in the performers list in accordance with regulation 7 (decisions and grounds for refusal).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 7A inserted (18.9.2023) by The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/828), regs. 1(1), 8
F2: Words in Instrument substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1