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

Amendment of the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

16.  In schedule 2 (agreements to provide essential services)—

(a) in paragraph 10(5) (removal from the list at the request of the patient) for “require” substitute “required”;

(b) in paragraph 11 (removal from the list at the request of the provider)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1) for “applicant’s” substitute “patient’s”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3)—

(aa) for “has—” substitute “has warned the patient that the patient is at risk of removal and explained to the patient the reasons for this.”;

(bb) omit head (a); and

(cc) omit head (b);

(c) in the heading to paragraph 16 (removals from the list of patients absent from the United Kingdom etc) insert “.” after “etc”;

(d) in paragraph 19(4) (closure of lists of patients) for “sub paragraph (1)” substitute “sub-paragraph (1)”;

(e) at the end of paragraph 20(3)(a) (approval of closure notice by the Health Board) insert “or”; and

(f) in paragraph 26 (assignments to closed lists: NHS dispute resolution procedure relating to determinations of the assessment panel)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (3)(a) for “paragraph 28(1)” substitute “paragraphs 26(1) and (2)”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3)(d)—

(aa) in the inserted sub-paragraph 19(b) after “Board;” insert “and”;

(bb) in the inserted sub-paragraph 19(c) for “resolution; and” substitute “resolution.”; and”;

(cc) omit the inserted sub-paragraph (19)(d); and

(dd) after sub-paragraph (3)(d) insert—

“(e) paragraph 59(2) and (3) of schedule 1 do not apply.”.