Hospital medical and dental staff (England and Wales) : terms and conditions of service.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security.
Date:
1986
Catalogue details

Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Hospital medical and dental staff (England and Wales) : terms and conditions of service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ae payment for professional services; and b. payment of hospital costs; and one third of whatever payment is made for the item of service provided shall be remitted to or retained by the health authority in respect of b. Where such facilities are not used, no charge shall be made under b. and any payment by the person or third party will be in respect of professional services only. All charges in respect of professional services shall be a matter of agreement between the practitioner and the person or third party concerned, and shall be collected by the practitioner, or, by agreement with the authority, collected by the authority and remitted to the practitioner. Schedule 35. The items of service listed in the two Categories of the Schedule below are not exhaustive. The application of the principles which the Schedule illustrates shall determine to which Category other similar services belong, and consequently whether or not the work is or may be part of the practitioner's contractual duties. 36. CATEGORY 1: work undertaken by hospital medical and dental staff for which charges may not be made. a. - Examination and diagnosis and the furnishing of any report reasonably required in connection therewith on a person referred to the health services for this purpose from a medical source for a second opinion. For this purpose, reference from a medical source means reference from a medical and dental practitioner (including, for example, a medical board) who, having clinically examined a person, requires a second opinion for any reason; but does not include reference for examination included in Category 2 or reference from an administrative medical officer who has not clinically examined the person referred. Examples of a. are: ri examination of and report on a person referred by a general practitioner; is