# The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2026, Regulation 15: Payments during suspension


(1) A practitioner may apply to the Local Health Board before the end of the period of 90 days beginning with the date on which a decision to suspend them was made under regulation 14 for payments during the period of suspension.
(2) During a period of suspension under regulation 14, payments may be made by the Local Health Board to or in respect of a practitioner in accordance with a determination by the Welsh Ministers where the practitioner has made an application in accordance with paragraph (1).
(3) If such a payment is made but the practitioner was not entitled to receive all or any part of it, the amount to which the practitioner was not entitled (“the overpayment”) may be recovered by the Local Health Board as a civil debt.
(4) Where requested by a practitioner to do so, the Local Health Board must reconsider any decision—
(a) to refuse to make a payment to, or in respect of, the practitioner under paragraph (2),
(b) as to the amount of a payment to, or in respect of, the practitioner under paragraph (2), or
(c) in respect of recovery of what the Local Health Board considers to be an overpayment under paragraph (3).
(5) A request by the practitioner under paragraph (4) must be made before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the decision was notified to the practitioner.
(6) Following the reconsideration of such a decision the Local Health Board must notify the practitioner in writing of the outcome of its reconsideration (“the reconsidered decision”) together with the reasons for it.
(7) Following notification of the reconsidered decision, the practitioner may, within a period of 28 days beginning on the day on which the practitioner is notified of that reconsidered decision, give the Welsh Ministers a notice of appeal.
(8) A notice of appeal under paragraph (7) must include—
(a) the name and address of the practitioner,
(b) a contact name and address to be used by the Local Health Board for the purposes of the appeal,
(c) a copy of the reconsidered decision, and
(d) a brief statement of the grounds for appeal.
(9) The Welsh Ministers must thereafter send a written request to the practitioner and the Local Health Board (“the parties”) to make, in writing and within a specified period, any representations they may wish to make about the matter: the request to the Local Health Board must include a copy of the practitioner’s brief statement of the grounds for appeal.
(10) Once the period specified under paragraph (9) has elapsed, the Welsh Ministers must—
(a) give a copy of any representations received from each party to the other party, and
(b) request that each party make any written observations which that party wishes to make on the representations of the other party.
(11) The Welsh Ministers must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, having taken into account any such representations or observations as referred to in paragraphs (9) and (10) and such other evidence as the Welsh Ministers see fit—
(a) decide the appeal, and notify the parties of their decision and the reasons for it, and
(b) give the Local Health Board such directions in writing, if any, on the matter as the Welsh Ministers thinks fit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/63/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-15
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