Commentary on Sections Ophthalmic Services Exclusion of contractors
195.Provisions around exclusion of contractors are set out in section 28WC.
196.Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations providing for a Primary Care Trust, or other prescribed person, to apply to the Family Health Service Appeal Authority (FHSAA) for a person to be disqualified from entering into a general ophthalmic services contract anywhere in England.
197.Subsection (2) specifies that regulations may in particular provide for review by the FHSAA of a disqualification and what is to happen to the general ophthalmic services contracts to which the disqualified person is a party when they are disqualified.