The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2004

8.  As if paragraph 22 were substituted as follows—

“Removals from the list of patients who have moved

22.— (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where the Primary Care Trust is satisfied that a person on its list of patients has moved and no longer resides in its practice area, the Primary Care Trust shall—

(a) inform the patient that it is no longer obliged to visit and treat him;

(b) advise the patient in writing either that—

(i) it agrees nonetheless to his continued inclusion in its list of patients if he so wishes, but that he may apply for registration with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent), or

(ii) he cannot continue to be included in its list of patients and that his name will be removed from its list of patients at the expiration of 30 days from the date of its letter, and that he should apply for registration with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent); and

(c) where it has written in terms of paragraph (b)(i), inform him that if, after the expiration of 30 days from the date of the Primary Care Trust’s letter, he has not acted in accordance with the advice and informed it accordingly, the Primary Care Trust will remove him from its list of patients.

(2) Where the Primary Care Trust has written in terms of sub-paragraph (1)(b)(i), if at the end of the expiration of the period of 30 days referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c) it has not been notified of the action taken, it shall remove the patient from its list of patients and inform the patient accordingly.

(3) Where the Primary Care Trust has written in terms of sub-paragraph (1)(b)(ii), the Primary Care Trust shall remove the patient from its list of patients at the expiration of the period of 30 days referred to in that sub-paragraph.”.