The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Notifications to the Health Board

40.  In addition to any requirements of notification elsewhere in the regulations, the provider shall notify the Health Board in writing, as soon as reasonably practicable, of–

(a) any serious incident that in the reasonable opinion of the provider affects or is likely to affect the provider’s performance of its obligations under the agreement;

(b) any circumstances which give rise to the Health Board’s right to terminate the agreement under paragraph 66 or 67;

(c) any appointments system which it proposes to operate and the proposed discontinuance of any such system;

(d) where the provider has a provider’s list of patients, any change of which it is aware in the address of a registered patient; and

(e) the death of any patient of which it is aware.