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2.—(1) Any person who wishes to receive primary medical services may choose the doctor from whom he is to receive those services (being a doctor who provides general medical services or who is primarily responsible for the performance of personal medical services under a pilot scheme(1)), subject to—
(a)the consent of that doctor; and
(b)any limit on the maximum number of persons whose names may be included in the doctor’s list of that doctor, imposed by regulation 24 of the GMS Regulations or, as the case may be, directions given under section 28F(3) of the 1977 Act(2).
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an application for inclusion of a person’s name in a doctor’s list shall be made by delivering to the doctor a medical card or an application signed (in either case) by the applicant or a person authorised by the applicant to sign on his behalf.
(3) An application may be made (otherwise than by the doctor concerned)—
(a)on behalf of any child—
(i)by either parent, or in the absence of both parents, the guardian or other adult person who has the care of the child;
(ii)by a person duly authorised by a local authority to whose care the child has been committed under the provisions of the Children Act 1989(3); or
(iii)by a person duly authorised by a voluntary organisation by which the child is being accommodated under the provisions of that Act; or
(b)on behalf of any adult person who is incapable of making such an application, or authorising such an application to be made on his behalf, by a relative or another adult person who has an interest in the welfare of that person.
As to such doctors (and the requirement that they must have a doctor’s list) see the Directions to Health Authorities Concerning the Implementation of Pilot Schemes (Personal Medical Services), made under section 6(1) of the 1997 Act, paragraphs 6 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 17(1).
No such directions had been given at the date on which these Regulations were made.
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