# The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2026, Regulation 29: Application for inclusion in a medical performers list


(1) In addition to satisfying the requirements of regulation 4, an application by a medical practitioner for inclusion in a medical performers list must satisfy the requirements of this regulation.
(2) The medical practitioner must, subject to paragraph (7)—
(a) provide detail of the medical practitioner’s qualifications, details of where they were obtained and evidence of them;
(b) provide a declaration that the medical practitioner is a medical practitioner whose name is included—
(i) in the case of a GP Registrar, in the register of medical practitioners, or
(ii) in any other case, in both registers;
(c) provide the medical practitioner’s professional registration number and dates of first registration—
(i) in the case of a GP Registrar, in the register of medical practitioners, or
(ii) in any other case, in both registers;
(d) in relation to the medical practitioner’s professional experience under regulation 4(2)(d), separate that information into—
(i) general practice experience,
(ii) hospital appointments, and
(iii) other experience,
with full supporting particulars of that experience;
(e) if the medical practitioner is a GP Registrar, provide the name and practice address of the medical practitioner’s GP Trainer;
(f) confirm whether the medical practitioner is a contractor under a general medical services contract;
(g) confirm whether the medical practitioner provides primary medical services under an APMS contract;
(h) confirm whether the medical practitioner is an armed forces GP and, if so, whether the medical practitioner is a Type 1 armed forces GP or a Type 2 armed forces GP.
(3) The medical practitioner must give the following undertakings—
(a) if the medical practitioner is a GP Registrar, unless that medical practitioner has acquired a right under article 6(6) of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 (persons with acquired rights)—
(i) not to perform any primary medical services except when acting for and under the supervision of, the medical practitioner’s GP Trainer,
(ii) to withdraw from a medical performers list if any of the events listed in paragraph (4) takes place, except in situations where paragraph (5) applies, and
(iii) to provide the Local Health Board with evidence of the medical practitioner’s inclusion in the GP Register within 28 days of the medical practitioner’s inclusion in that register;
(b) if the medical practitioner is a contractor under a general medical services contract, to comply with the requirements of paragraph 132 of Part 12 of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (gifts);
(c) if the medical practitioner is not a contractor under a general medical services contract, to comply with the requirements referred to in sub-paragraph (b) as though the medical practitioner were such a contractor;
(d) not to perform any primary medical services in the area of another Local Health Board from whose medical performers list or medical list the medical practitioner has been removed, except where that removal was at the medical practitioner’s request or in accordance with regulation 16(5) of these Regulations or regulation 7(2) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992, without the consent, in writing, of that Local Health Board.
(4) The events to which this paragraph applies are—
(a) the conclusion of any period of general practice training approved by the General Medical Council under section 34I(1)(a) of the 1983 Act (postgraduate medical education and training: general functions) unless it forms part of a foundation training scheme which has not yet been completed by the medical practitioner,
(b) the failure to complete satisfactorily any period of general practice training approved by the General Medical Council under section 34I(1)(a) of 1983 Act (postgraduate medical education and training: general functions), and
(c) the completion of a foundation training scheme.
(5) A medical practitioner is not required to withdraw from a medical performers list under paragraph (3)(a)(ii) if, in compliance with the undertaking given under paragraph (3)(a)(iii), the medical practitioner provides the Local Health Board with evidence of the medical practitioner’s inclusion in the GP Register within 28 days of the medical practitioner’s first inclusion in that register.
(6) The provision of evidence of inclusion in the GP Register in accordance with an undertaking given under paragraph (3)(a)(iii) is to constitute notice for the purposes of regulation 22(1).
(7) This regulation applies to an application made by a returning practitioner as if paragraph (2)(a), (b) and (d) were omitted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/63/regulation/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-29
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