The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996
These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) by substituting new regulations for regulations 2 to 15, replacing Schedule 1 and making consequential amendments. These provisions replace the system whereby complaints made against practitioners providing services under Part II of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 were dealt with by service committees. Service committees are abolished and are replaced by discipline committees to which Health Boards will refer for investigation matters which raise allegations that a practitioner has failed to comply with his terms of service or concern overpayments made to a practitioner (regulation 3). Unlike service committees, discipline committees will not deal with complaints made by or on behalf of patients. Such complaints will be dealt with in accordance with regulations specified in regulation 1(4) of the principal Regulations and directions given under section 2(5) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. These directions are available from the Health Gain Division, Scottish Office Department of Health, St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh.