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

Termination of responsibility for patients

22.  The agreement shall provide that–

(a) a provider may notify the Health Board in writing that the provider wishes to have any person removed from the list of patients (which, in this paragraph, means the combined performer’s lists of all the performers who have such a list and the pooled list, if any) and that removal shall take effect in accordance with regulation 10(3) or, as the case may be, 10(4);

(b) where–

(i) a person whose name is included in the list of patients has committed an act of violence against a performer, or has behaved in such a way that the performer has feared for his safety; and

(ii) the performer has reported the incident to the police or the Procurator Fiscal,

the provider may notify the Health Board that the provider wishes to have that person removed from the list of patients with immediate effect and that removal shall take effect in accordance with regulation 10(5);

(c) notification under sub-paragraph (b) may be given by any means including telephone or fax, but if not given in writing shall subsequently be confirmed in writing within seven days (and, for this purpose, a faxed notification is not a written one);

(d) the time at which the provider notifies the Health Board shall be the time at which the provider makes the telephone call to the Health Board or at which the notification is delivered to the Health Board;

(e) other than in a case to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, where a provider notifies a Health Board that he wishes to have a person removed from the list of patients, the provider shall inform the Board in writing if a performer is treating the person at intervals of less than seven days;

(f) where a provider has notified a Health Board that the provider wishes to have a person’s name removed from the list of patients with immediate effect, the provider shall, in writing, inform the person concerned of that notification.