The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Removals from the list of patients registered elsewhere

13.—(1) The Health Board must remove a patient from the provider’s list of patients if—

(a) the patient has subsequently been registered with another provider (by any arrangement) of essential services (or their equivalent) in the area of the Health Board; or

(b) it has received notice from another Health Board, Local Health Board, the National Health Service Commissioning Board(1) or the Regional Health and Social Care Board that the patient has subsequently been registered with a provider (by any arrangement) of essential services (or their equivalent) outside the area of the Health Board.

(2) A removal in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) will take effect—

(a) on the date on which the Health Board receives notification of the registration of the person with the new provider (by any arrangement); or

(b) with the consent of the Health Board, on such other date as has been agreed between the provider and the new provider (by any arrangement).

(3) The Health Board must notify the provider in writing of persons removed from the provider’s list of patients under sub-paragraph (1).

(1)

Established under section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41). Section 1H was inserted by section 9(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) and was amended by S.I. 2012/1831.