# The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2026, Regulation 16: Removal from a performers list


(1) The Local Health Board must remove a practitioner from its performers list where the grounds in regulations 32(1) or 40(1) apply or where it becomes aware that the practitioner—
(a) has been convicted in the United Kingdom of murder,
(b) has been convicted in the United Kingdom of a criminal offence, committed on or after the date prescribed in the relevant Part, and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) of over 12 months,
(c) is subject to a national disqualification which disqualifies the practitioner from inclusion in the performers list in question,
(d) has died, or
(e) is no longer registered with the practitioner’s relevant body.
(2) Where a Local Health Board is notified by the First-tier Tribunal that it has considered an appeal by a practitioner against conditions imposed under regulation 12 and has decided to remove the practitioner instead, the Local Health Board must—
(a) remove the practitioner from its performers list, and
(b) immediately notify the practitioner that it has done so.
(3) The Local Health Board may remove a practitioner from its performers list where any of the following is satisfied—
(a) the practitioner has been convicted in the United Kingdom of a criminal offence (other than murder), committed on or after the date prescribed in the relevant Part, and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) of between 6 and 12 months,
(b) the practitioner’s continued inclusion in that performers list would be prejudicial to the efficiency of the services which those included in that performers list perform (“an efficiency case”),
(c) the practitioner—
(i) has (whether on the practitioner’s own or together with another person) by an act or omission caused, or risked causing, detriment to any health scheme by securing or trying to secure for the practitioner or another person any financial or other benefit, and
(ii) knew that the practitioner or the other person was not entitled to the benefit (“a fraud case”), or
(d) the practitioner is unsuitable to be included in that performers list (“an unsuitability case”).
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(c)—
(a) the following are “health schemes”—
(i) the services included in the definition of “health scheme” in section 107(7) of the 2006 Act (disqualification of practitioners),
(ii) health services, including medical and surgical treatment, provided by the armed forces,
(iii) services provided by Port Health Authorities constituted under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984,
(iv) medical services provided to a prisoner in the care of the medical officer or other officer of a prison appointed for the purposes of section 7 of the Prison Act 1952, and
(v) publicly-funded health services provided by or on behalf of any organisation anywhere in the world, and
(b) a practitioner must be treated as meeting the conditions referred to if—
(i) another person, because of an act or omission of that person in the course of providing on the practitioner’s behalf any services which those included in the relevant performers list perform, meets that condition, and
(ii) the practitioner failed to take all such steps as were reasonable to prevent acts or omissions falling within paragraph (3)(c)(i) occurring in the course of the provision of those services on the practitioner’s behalf.
(5) Where a practitioner cannot demonstrate that the practitioner has performed the services, which those included in the relevant performers list perform, within the area of the Local Health Board during the preceding 12 months, the Local Health Board may remove the practitioner from its performers list.
(6) Paragraph (5) does not apply in the case of a Type 1 armed forces GP or a Type 2 armed forces GP.
(7) In calculating the period of 12 months referred to in paragraph (5), the following periods, in addition to any periods disregarded under regulations 32(4) and 40(4), are to be disregarded—
(a) any period during which the practitioner was suspended under these Regulations;
(b) any period during which the practitioner was performing whole-time service in the armed forces in a national emergency (as a volunteer or otherwise), compulsory whole-time service in the armed forces (including service resulting from reserve liability), or any equivalent service, if liable for compulsory whole-time service in the armed forces, or
(c) any period which the Local Health Board with good cause so determines.
(8) Where a Local Health Board is considering removing a practitioner from its performers list under paragraph (3) or (5) or regulation 13(1)(c) or 19(7)(b), it must give the practitioner—
(a) notice of any allegation against the practitioner;
(b) notice of what action the Local Health Board is considering and on what grounds;
(c) the opportunity to make written representations to the Local Health Board within a period of 28 days of the date of the notification under sub-paragraph (b), and
(d) the opportunity to put the practitioner’s case at an oral hearing before the Local Health Board, if the practitioner so requests, within the 28 day period mentioned in sub-paragraph (c).
(9) After consideration of any representations made under paragraph (8)(c) and any oral hearing held under paragraph (8)(d), the Local Health Board must decide whether to remove the practitioner and, within 7 days of making that decision, notify the practitioner of—
(a) that decision and the reasons for it (including any facts relied upon), and
(b) any right of appeal under regulation 19;
(10) When the Local Health Board notifies a practitioner under paragraph (9)(b), it must—
(a) notify the practitioner that the right of appeal must be exercised within the period of 28 days beginning with the date of the issue of that notification, and
(b) tell the practitioner how to exercise any such right.
(11) Where the Local Health Board decides to remove a practitioner from its performers list under paragraph (3) or (5) or regulation 13(1)(c), 18(3)(c), (4)(c) or (5)(c), or 19(7)(b), the practitioner must not be removed from its performers list until the later of—
(a) the expiry of a period of 28 days starting with the day on which the Local Health Board reaches its decision, and
(b) the date on which any appeal is disposed of by the First-tier Tribunal.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/63/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-16
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