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

Removals from list of patients who have moved

16.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where the Health Board is satisfied that a person on the provider’s list of patients has moved and no longer resides in that provider’s practice area, the Board shall–

(a) inform that patient and the provider that the provider is no longer obliged to visit and treat the person;

(b) advise the patient either to obtain the provider’s agreement to the continued inclusion of the person on the provider’s list of patients or to apply for registration with another provider (by any arrangement) of essential services (or their equivalent); and

(c) inform the patient that if, after the expiration of 30 days from the date of the letter of advice mentioned in paragraph (b), the patient has not acted in accordance with the advice and informed the Board accordingly, the Health Board will remove the patient from the provider’s list of patients.

(2) If, at the expiration of the period of 30 days referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c), the Health Board has not been notified of the action taken, it shall remove the patient from the provider’s list of patients and inform the patient and the provider accordingly.