ANNEX A:: OUTLINE OF THE EXISTING LAW RELATING TO THE NHS Part 2 services and PMS/PDS
521.Sections 14 and 15 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 made new provision for GP vacancies. Section 16 provides that HAs (now PCTs) will remove or suspend practitioners from Part II lists (section 25), subject to appeal to the Family Health Services Appeal Authority (FHSAA) (section 27). Sections 17 to 24 make provision for out of hours GP services, changes to the Part II list arrangements and for supplementary lists for persons assisting the provision of Part II services. Section 26 enables the Secretary of State to make regulations for PCTs to hold lists of persons who may perform PMS/PDS. Many of these provisions are not free-standing but proceed by way of amending or inserting new sections in the 1977 Act. For example, section 25 inserts new sections 49F to 49R and section 27 inserts section 49S and Schedule 9A.