The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1996
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) by substituting new regulations 3-13 for regulations 3-14, replacing Schedules 2 and 4, revoking Schedules 3 and 6 and making consequential amendments. These provisions replace the system whereby complaints made against practitioners providing services under Part II of the National Health Service Act 1977 were dealt with by service committees. Service committees are abolished and are replaced by discipline committees to which Health Authorities will refer matters for investigation which raise allegations that a practitioner has failed to comply with his terms of service or concern overpayments made to such a practitioner (regulation 4). Unlike service committees, discipline committees will not deal with complaints made by or on behalf of patients. Complaints will be dealt with in accordance with regulations specified in regulation 2(4) of the principal Regulations and Directions given under section 17 of the National Health Service Act 1977 which are available from CA-QC, NHS Executive Headquarters, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE.