The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Acceptance of patients in a pooled list

21.—(1) Where an agreement authorises the operation of a pooled list it shall comply with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) An agreement shall require the provider to have a procedure under which persons may apply for inclusion in a pooled list, which provides that–

(a) subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), an application shall be made by delivering to the provider a medical card or an application signed (in either case) by the applicant or a person authorised by the applicant to sign on his behalf;

(b) an application may be made (otherwise than by the provider or a performer) on behalf of any child by–

(i) either parent, or in the absence of both parents, the guardian or other adult person who has the care of the child;

(ii) a person duly authorised by a local authority to whose care the child has been committed under the provisions of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968(1); or

(iii) a person duly authorised by a voluntary organisation by which the child is being accommodated under the provisions of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968; and

(c) an application may be made (otherwise than by the provider or a performer) on behalf of any adult who is incapable of making such an application.

(3) An agreement shall require that where a provider has agreed to accept a person for inclusion in a pooled list, he shall, within 14 days of receiving that person’s medical card or, as the case may be, form of application, or as soon after the expiry of that period as is practicable–

(a) sign the medical card or, as the case may be, the form of application; and

(b) send it to the Health Board.

(4) An agreement shall require that where, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), any person signs a medical card or form of application on behalf of the provider, the provider shall ensure that the signatory specifies the name of the provider on whose behalf that person is signing.

(1)

1968 c. 49.