The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Duty of co-operation in relation to additional and enhanced services

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9.—(1) A contractor which does not provide to its registered patients or to persons whom it has accepted as temporary residents—

(a)a particular additional service; or

(b)a particular enhanced service;

must comply with the requirements specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The requirements referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are that the contractor must—

(a)co-operate, insofar as it is reasonable, with any person responsible for the provision of that service or those services; and

(b)comply in core hours with any reasonable request for information from such a person or from the Health Board relating to the provision of that service or those services.