The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Notifications to patients following variation of the agreement

45.  Where the agreement is varied in accordance with Part 8 of this Schedule and, as a result of that variation–

(a)there is to be a change in the range of services provided to the provider’s patients; or

(b)where the provider has a provider’s list of patients, patients who are on that list are to be removed from that list,

the Health Board shall notify those patients in writing of the variation and its effect and inform them of the steps they can take to obtain elsewhere the services in question or, as the case may be, register elsewhere for the provision of essential services (or their equivalent).