The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Lists of patients for default contracts and general medical services contracts entered into following arrangements under regulation 24 of the 1997 Regulations or Article 15 N.I.

30.—(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Board enters into a default contract or a general medical services contract pursuant to Article 3 with an individual medical practitioner for whom, immediately prior to the commencement of that contract, it had in place temporary arrangements under regulation 24(2) or (6) of the 1997 Regulations(1), it must include on the contractor’s list of patients at the start of that default, or, as the case may be, general medical services contract, all of the patients who, on the date on which the temporary arrangements came to an end were –

(a) temporarily assigned to other medical practitioners under paragraph (16) of regulation 24; or

(b) included on the list of the medical practitioner for whom the temporary arrangements were in place,

apart from, in the case of a general medical services contract, any such patient who lives outside the practice area as specified in that contract and who became registered with either the medical practitioner for whom the temporary arrangements are in place or the medical practitioner providing the temporary arrangements otherwise than as the result of an assignment under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations.

(2) Where, after 31st March 2004, a Board enters into a general medical services contract pursuant to Article 3 with an individual medical practitioner for whom, immediately prior to the commencement of that contract, it had in place contractual arrangements under Article 15, it must include on the contractor’s list of patients at the start of that general medical services contract all of the patients who were, on the date on which those contractual arrangements came to an end, on the list of patients prepared and maintained by the Board for the purpose of those contractual arrangements, apart from any such patient who lives outside the practice area as specified in the general medical services contract and whose inclusion in the list of patients did not result from an assignment under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations or under the contractual arrangements under Article 15.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 30 in operation at 29.3.2004, see art. 1(1)

(1)

Regulation 24(2) was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100