LegalizeThe National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Made: 17th April 2023
Laid before Parliament: 18th April 2023
Coming into force: 15th May 2023
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Citation, commencement, extent and application
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Amendment of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015
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Amendment of the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015
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Transitional provision
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SCHEDULE 1 — Amendments to the GMS Contracts Regulations
Removal of references to medical cards
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Pay transparency
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Patient online services: provision of online access to coded information in medical record and prospective medical records
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Patient online services: provision of online access to full digital medical record
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Patient online services: provision of an online consultation tool
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Patient access to online services
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New telephone contract or arrangements
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Contact with the practice
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SCHEDULE 2 — Amendments to the PMS Agreements Regulations
Removal of references to medical cards
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Pay transparency
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Vaccines and immunisations: duty of co-operation
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Patient online services: provision of online access to coded information in medical record and prospective medical records
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Patient online services: provision of online access to full digital medical record
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Patient online services: provision of an online consultation tool
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Patient access to online services
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New telephone contract or arrangements
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Contact with the practice
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Integrated care provider contracts
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Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Neil O’Brien — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department for Health and Social Care — 17th April 2023
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2006 c. 41. Relevant amendments are made to both sections 89 and 94 by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31) (“the 2022 Act”). Section 94 is also amended by section 28 of, and paragraph 38 of Schedule 4 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), by paragraph 52 of Schedule 9 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) and by paragraph 38(3) of Schedule 4 to the 2022 Act. There are amendments to section 272 which are not relevant to these Regulations. “Prescribed” and “regulations” are defined in section 275.
[^f00002]: 2022 c. 31.
[^f00003]: S.I. 2015/1862; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2020/226 and 2022/935.
[^f00004]: S.I. 2015/1879; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2019/248, 2020/226, 2021/331 and 2022/634 and 935.
[^f00005]: 2018 c. 12. Section 3(10) is amended, with effect from IP completion day, by S.I. 2019/419. “IP completion day” has the meaning given in section 39(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1).
[^f00006]: The framework is the Advanced Telephony Better Purchasing framework (https://buyingcatalogue.digital.nhs.uk/advanced-telephony-better-purchase.). Hard copies are available from NHS England, Quarry House, Leeds, LS2 7UE.
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