Following a range of helpful comments on the model contracts issued in December 2005, the Department of Health has asked its lawyers to review and revise the drafting of both the GDS Standard Contract document and Standard Clauses for a PDS Agreement.
Click here to read the variation order and associated information for nPDS.
Click here to read the variation order and associated information for nGDS.
The amendments are mainly of a technical nature, correcting cross references and numbering, but one or two additional clauses have been added where the meaning was unclear to users.
GDS and PDS versions of a Variation Notice which PCTs will need to issue where contracts or agreements have already been signed. PCTs should use the 13 March versions of the Standard Contract and Clauses for PDS agreements in all cases where the relevant documents have not yet been signed by the parties.
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