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

Lists of patients for default contracts and GMS contracts entered into following arrangements under regulation 24 of the 1995 Regulations or article 15

30.—(1) Where, on or after 1st April 2004, a Health Board enters into a default contract or a GMS contract pursuant to article 3 with an individual medical practitioner for whom, or pursuant to article 4 with a partnership, one of the partners for whom, immediately prior to the commencement of that contract, it had in place temporary arrangements under regulation 24(2) or (7) of the 1995 Regulations, it must include on the contractor’s list of patients at the start of that default, or, as the case may be, GMS contract, all of the patients who, on the date on which the temporary arrangements came to an end were–

(a) temporarily assigned to other medical practitioners under regulation 24(17A) of the 1995 Regulations(1); or

(b) included on the list of the medical practitioner for whom the temporary arrangements were in place,

apart from, in the case of a GMS contract, any such patient who lives outside the practice area as specified in that contract and who became registered with either the medical practitioner for whom the temporary arrangements are in place, or the medical practitioner or practitioners providing the temporary arrangements, otherwise than as the result of an assignment under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations.

(2) Where, on or after 1st April 2004, a Health Board enters into a GMS contract pursuant to article 3 with an individual medical practitioner for whom, or pursuant to article 4 a partnership, one of the partners for whom, immediately prior to the commencement of that contract, it had in place contractual arrangements under article 15, it must include on the contractor’s list of patients at the start of that GMS contract all of the patients who were, on the date on which those contractual arrangements came to an end, on the list or lists of patients prepared and maintained by the Health Board for the purpose of those contractual arrangements, apart from any such patient who lives outside the practice area as specified in the GMS contract and whose inclusion in the list of patients did not result from an assignment under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations or under the contractual arrangements under article 15.

(1)

Regulation 24 was amended by S.I. 1995/3199, 1998/660 and S.S.I. 1999/54.