Regulation 27 Medical performers list

Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), a medical practitioner may not perform primary medical services unless the medical practitioner is a general medical practitioner included in a medical performers list.

A medical practitioner who is not included in a medical performers list may administer a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or perform any primary medical service ancillary to the administration of such a vaccine.

A medical practitioner who is provisionally registered under section 15 (provisional registration), 15A (provisional registration for EEA nationals etc) or 21 (provisional registration of EEA national etc with certain overseas qualifications) of the 1983 Act^f1, may perform primary medical services, when the medical practitioner is not included in a medical performers list, while acting in the course of the medical practitioner’s employment as part of an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors within the meaning of section 10A of the 1983 Act (programmes for provisionally registered doctors) in a medical practice which is a recognised practice setting for the purposes of section 44D of that Act (approved practice settings).

A GP Registrar or other medical practitioner may perform primary medical services when not included in a medical performers list in so far as the performance of those services constitutes a part of a programme of postgraduate supervised clinical practice approved by the General Medical Council under section 34I(1)(a) of the 1983 Act^f2.