The General Medical Services (Transitional and Other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004

Additional services in default contracts

16.—(1) A default contract must require the contractor to provide in core hours to its registered patients and persons accepted by it as temporary residents all of the additional services, except those which fall within paragraph (2).

(2) An additional service falls within this paragraph if–

(a) on 31st March 2004 the equivalent of that service was not being provided to the default contractor’s patients by–

(i) the medical practitioner who has entered into the default contract; or

(ii) in the case of a default contract with a partnership, any of the medical practitioners who are partners in that partnership; and

(b) the default contractor does not wish to provide that service to its patients under a GMS contract which it intends to enter into on or after 1st April 2004 pursuant to article 3 or 4.