Contents
- Part I General
- Part II Miscellaneous provisions
- Part III Consequential amendments
- 4 Amendment of the General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
- 5 Amendment of the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993
- 6 Amendment of the Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
- 7 Amendment of the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
- 8 Amendment of the General Ophthalmic Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986
- 9 Amendment of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976
- 10 Amendment of the Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985
- 11 Amendment of the Children’s Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
- 12 Amendment of the Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
- 13 Amendment of the Health and Social Services Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994
- 14 Amendment of the Health and Social Services Councils Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991
- 15 Amendment of the Health Services (Choice of Medical Practitioner) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
- Schedule Provisions conferring powers used in the making of these Regulations
Part I · General
1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Health Services (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1999.
(2)In Part II of these Regulations—• “the 1997 Order” means the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;• note...
Part II · Miscellaneous provisions
Part III · Consequential amendments
4Amendment of the General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997#
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5Amendment of the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993#
(1)The Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2)In regulation 2 (interpretation), at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, insert—“• “the 1997 Order” means the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”“• “personal dental services” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 3(7) of the 1997 Order;”“• “pilot dentist” means a dentist who performs personal dental services in connection with a pilot scheme;”“• “pilot scheme” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 3(1) of the 1997 Order;”“• “pilot scheme agreement” means an agreement which constitutes, or is one of the agreements which together constitute, a pilot scheme;”
(3)In regulation 5A (applications for vocational training numbers), in paragraph (4)(d), after “Crown” insert “, or has performed personal dental services in connection with a pilot scheme,”.
(4)In regulation 8 (removal from a dental list), in paragraph (5)—
(a)omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (c); and
(b)at the end of sub-paragraph (d), after “sickness”, add—“; ore the dentist was performing personal dental services in connection with a pilot scheme”
(5)In regulation 20 (approval of payments), after paragraph (7) add—“8 Where the Agency has made a payment to a pilot scheme provider for providing personal dental services to a patient, it shall not make any payment under these Regulations in relation to the same patient to the same pilot scheme provider, or to any dentist performing personal dental services in connection with that pilot scheme, unless the patient has been referred under these Regulations for treatment by way of personal dental services under that pilot scheme.”
(6)In Schedule 2 (terms of service for dentists)—
(a)in paragraph 7 (repair or replacement of restorations), in sub-paragraph (1), after “transferred,” insert “has provided by way of personal dental services in connection with a pilot scheme or”;
(b)in paragraph 11—
(i)in sub-paragraph (1), for “sub-paragraph (4)” substitute “sub-paragraphs (4) and (7)”,
(ii)in sub-paragraph (4), for “Subject to paragraph 11A” substitute “Subject to sub-paragraph (7) and paragraph 11A”, and
(iii)after sub-paragraph (6), insert—“7 Where—a under Article 7 of the 1997 Order the Department has approved a proposal for a pilot scheme under which personal dental services are to be provided, or such a proposal has been subsequently varied with the agreement of the Department or, as the case may be, in a manner authorised by directions given by the Department under Article 8 of the 1997 Order; andb under the proposal (or the varied proposal) a dentist named in it as a performer of personal dental services would treat a patient under the pilot scheme and not under a continuing care arrangement or a capitation arrangement,the dentist shall give to him such notice of the termination of the arrangement as is required under the pilot scheme.”
(c)in each of paragraph 12 (referral to another dentist or to a hospital or other service) and paragraph 18 (referral for occasional treatment), in sub-paragraph (1), after “general dental services” insert “or personal dental services”; and
(d)in paragraph 14 (inability of dentist to complete care and treatment), after “control,” insert “or to his taking up the performance of personal dental services in connection with a pilot scheme”.
6Amendment of the Charges for Drugs and Appliances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997#
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7Amendment of the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997#
In the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, after regulation 2(1) (interpretation), insert—“1A In these Regulations, the expression “pharmaceutical services” includes the provision to persons who are in a Board’s area of listed drugs and medicines which are ordered for those persons by a medical or dental practitioner in pursuance by him of the performance of personal medical or personal dental services within the meaning of Article 3(7) of the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.”
8Amendment of the General Ophthalmic Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986#
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9Amendment of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976#
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10Amendment of the Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985#
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11Amendment of the Children’s Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996#
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12Amendment of the Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996#
In the Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, in regulation 2(2)(f) (general welfare of children), at the end, insert “, or the list of a doctor performing personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme under the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (or a list held jointly by two or more such doctors in connection with a pilot scheme under that Order)”.
13Amendment of the Health and Social Services Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994#
The Health and Social Services Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994, shall be amended as follows—
(a)in regulation 1(2) (interpretation), at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, insert—“• “the 1997 Order” means the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”“• “pilot scheme” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 3(1) of the 1997 Order;”“• “pilot scheme agreement” means an agreement which constitutes, or is one of the agreements which together constitute, a pilot scheme;”“• “pilot scheme provider” means a person, other than a Health and Social Services Board, who is a party to a pilot scheme agreement under the 1997 Order;”“• “pilot scheme performer” means a person, who may also be a pilot scheme provider, who performs personal medical services or personal dental services under a pilot scheme;”“• “pilot scheme employee” means an individual who, in connection with the provision of personal medical services or personal dental services under a pilot scheme, is employed by a person providing those services;”
(b)in regulation 11(1) (disqualification for appointment as chairman and non-executive directors),—
(i)for sub-paragraph (f) substitute—“f he is a—i general medical practitioner or general dental practitioner or an employee of either of those, orii pilot scheme provider, pilot scheme performer or pilot scheme employee;”
(ii)after sub-paragraph (h), insert—“i he has applied for his name to be included in a list of a Health and Social Services Board, and a direction that his name should not be included in the relevant list has been given by the Tribunal under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, and such disqualification has not been removed following an application to the Tribunal under regulation 12 of the Tribunal Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995.”
14Amendment of the Health and Social Services Councils Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991#
The Health and Social Services Councils Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 shall be amended as follows—
(a)in regulation 1(2) (interpretation), at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, insert—“• “pilot scheme” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 3(1) of the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”“• “pilot scheme agreement” means an agreement which constitutes, or is one of the agreements which together constitute, a pilot scheme;”“• “pilot scheme provider” means a person, other than a Health and Social Services Board, who is a party to a pilot scheme agreement under the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”“• “pilot scheme performer” means a person, who may also be a pilot scheme provider, who performs personal medical services or personal dental services under a pilot scheme;”
(b)in regulation 7(1) (disqualification for membership), after sub-paragraph (e), insert—“ee he is a pilot scheme provider or pilot scheme performer in a pilot scheme under the Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;”
Schedule · Provisions conferring powers used in the making of these Regulations
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