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DR ANDREW GREENWOOD - Locum GP

John Morrison, William
Ovenden, Mark Roman and Francis Eyre

Associates: Drs
Helen Cheridjian and Ruth Morrison

Practice Nurses:
Cath Cavanagh, Jackie Craven, Chris Robinson and Polly Smith

Healthcare Assistant:
Judith Campbell; Phlebotomist: Audrey Hawkes

Practice Manager:
Shelagh Kirkby

upplementary
lists of non-principals

From 1 June
this year GMS GP principals in England will be responsible under
their terms of service for ensuring that any assistant or deputy
they employ is on a PCT or health authority supplementary list.

These new
lists are intended to ensure that a minimum number of essential
checks are made before a doctor is allowed to treat patients.
But they do not take away the responsibility of a GP principal
to ensure that the doctor they employ as an assistant or deputy
is appropriately experienced.

Health authorities
are now setting up local supplementary lists of doctors who work
as deputies or assistants in GMS. This includes associates, assistants,
salaried GMS doctors, retrainees, locums and GP Registrars. PCTs
will from April onwards progressively take over management of
these lists.

To continue
to support GP principals in the provision of GMS after 1 April,
non-principals must apply to join a health authority supplementary
list before 28 February. Once the application has been submitted
the non-principal is free to continue to work whilst their application
is decided. PCTs and health authorities have until 31 May to complete
this process. This phased process will ensure both continuity
of support for GP practices and employment for non-principals.

Non-principals
who apply after 28 February will not be entitled to work in GMS,
and must not be engaged by a GP principal after 1 April, until
their application has decided by the PCT or health authority.

Health authorities
are sending application details to known locums, and other non-principals,
in their areas. GP principals can help their health authority
by asking locums and any other non-principals linked to their
practice if they have applied. If they have not, they should be
encouraged to do so straight away.

Lists of doctors
working in PMS will be introduced later this year. Until these
lists are introduced, any doctor who is named in a PMS contract
does not need to apply to join a supplementary list. Any doctor
wishing to work as a locum exclusively in PMS does not need to
join a supplementary list. However, these doctors will wish to
seriously consider joining the supplementary list so that they
can work as a locum in both PMS and GMS.

Once the PMS
lists are introduced, any doctor working in PMS — whether
named in a contract or not — will be required to be on a
PCT/strategic health authority list.

Any queries
can be addressed to Jenny Smith on 0113 2545825 or email at jenny.smith@doh.gsi.gov.uk
providing contact details and stating which health authority has
been approached.