The Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Removals from the list of patients who have moved

23.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where the Board is satisfied that a person on the contractor’s list of patients has moved and no longer resides in that contractor’s practice area, the Board shall –

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

(b) advise the patient in writing either to obtain the contractor’s agreement to the continued inclusion of the person on his list of patients or to apply for registration with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent); and

(c) inform the patient that if, after the expiration of 30 days from and including the date of the advice mentioned in paragraph (b), he has not acted in accordance with the advice and informed it accordingly, the Board will remove him from the contractor’s list of patients.

(2) If, at the expiration of the period of 30 days referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c), the Board has not been notified of the action taken, it shall remove the patient from the contractor’s list of patients and inform him and the contractor accordingly.