The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989

means, in relation to any doctor, the period approved by the Committee in his case, pursuant to paragraph 25 of the terms of service, during which he is normally to be available to his patients.”

means, in relation to a doctor, available to provide general medical services to his patients, and for the purposes of calculating the times at which a doctor is to be regarded as available– a account may be taken of any period when the doctor is attending at his practice premises or at any clinic provided by him for his own patients, and of any time spent making a domiciliary visit;

means a person who has not attained the age of 16 years;

means the personal medical services described in paragraph 9B of the terms of service and Schedule 1A to these Regulations;

means a visit to either the place where the patient resides or the place, other than the doctor’s practice premises, where the doctor is obliged, pursuant to paragraph 13A of the terms of service, to render personal medical services to the patient;

means an association of not less than two doctors both or all of whom– (a) have their names included in the Committee’s medical list;

means activities connected with– a the organisation of the medical profession or the training of its members;

means the Local Directory of Family Doctors maintained by a Committee pursuant to regulation 5A;

means, in relation to any patient, the records maintained in respect of that patient pursuant to paragraph 30 of the terms of service;

means the personal medical services described in paragraph 9C of the terms of service and Schedule 1B to these Regulations;

includes any adult person who, in the opinion of the doctor, is for the time being fulfilling the obligations normally attaching to a parent in respect of his child;

means, in relation to any doctor, the premises at which he is obliged under the terms of service to attend at specified times in order to be consulted by, or to provide treatment or services for, his patients;

means a doctor who has undertaken to provide general medical services only to a restricted category of patients identified by reference to their connection with a particular establishment or organisation;

means a doctor who has undertaken to the Committee to provide general medical services limited to– (a) child health surveillance services;

means the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1974.

means the Tribunal constituted under section 46 of the National Health Service Act 1977;”