NHS
HDL(2001)45

 

Health Department
Human Resources Directorate


Dear Colleague

REVISED GENERAL GUIDANCE ON APPOINTMENT
PROCEDURES
THE NATIONAL PANEL OF SPECIALISTS

Summary

This letter encloses the current National Panel membership list for the National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants)
(Scotland) Regulations 1993.

Action

2. Trusts and Health Boards should:

-      note the revised guidance

-      note the appointment of new members of the Panel who will
        serve from 1 May 2001 to 30 April 2005.

3.    Details of what is required are set out in the Appendix and Annexes attached.

Yours sincerely

 

 

ROBIN NAYSMITH
Acting Director of Human Resources

31st May 2001

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Addresses

For action
Chief Executives, NHS Trusts

General Managers, Health Boards

General Manager, Common Services
Agency

General Manager, State Hospitals
Board for Scotland

General Manager, Health Education
Board for Scotland

Executive Director, Scottish Council
for Postgraduate Medical and Dental
Education

 

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Enquiries to:

Mrs L Middleton
Directorate of Human Resources
Room GW.15
St Andrew's House
EDINBURGH EH1 3DG

Tel: 0131-244 2828
Fax: 0131-244 2837

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APPENDIX

MEMBERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL PANEL OF SPECIALISTS

General

1 . The National Panel of Specialists is constituted under regulation 6 of the National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) (Scotland) Regulations 1993. The National Panel provides members for Consultant Advisory Appointments Committees, also constituted under the 1993 Regulations. The enclosed membership list supersedes that enclosed with NHS MEL(2000)26.

2. The Panel has been structured to ensure that approximately one-quarter of the members retire each year. Retiring members may, however, be re-appointed, subject to any conditions which Scottish Ministers may impose. After retiral from a consultant post, a member of the Panel may complete his or her term of office unless he or she first attains the age of 70 years, at which time membership must cease.

Changes to the panel

3. To assist in maintaining an up-to-date list of members, NHS Trusts and Health Boards are asked to inform the Scottish Executive Health Department when any Panel member leaves NHS employment for any reason.

Secretary to the Panel

4. The Secretary to the National Panel of Specialists is Dr D J Ewing, SEHD, Room GW.07, St Andrew's House, Edinburgh EH1 3DG (Tel: 0131-244-2275) to whom any enquiries of a professional nature should be referred.

 

Click here to view the revised list of May 2001 (PDF document, 249 KB). Please note that the pagination in this online version differs from that of the list issued with the printed version of HDL(2001)45.