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

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PART 8TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Out of Hours

28.—(1) Where on 31st March 2018 an agreement included a requirement to provide out of hours services pursuant to regulation 13 of the 2004 Regulations—

(a)the agreement must continue to require the provider to provide out of hours services; and

(b)despite the revocation of the 2004 Regulations, the provisions of the 2004 Regulations referred to in paragraph (2) will continue to have effect in relation to that agreement on and after 1st April 2018 as they had effect immediately before that date,

until one of the end dates in paragraph (3) occurs.

(2) The provisions of the 2004 Regulations are—

(a)regulation 2, only in so far as that regulation relates to the definitions for “out of hours period” and “out of hours services”;

(b)regulations 9(d) and 13;

(c)paragraphs 6 and 7 of schedule 1;

(d)schedule 4; and

(e)paragraph 17 of schedule 6.

(3) The end dates referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a)where on or after 1st April 2018, a provider serves on the Health Board a written notice stating that the provider wishes to terminate its obligation to provide out of hours services under its agreement, the end date is the date 9 months after the date of service of the notice or such earlier date as the Health Board and the provider agree; and

(b)where on or after 1st April 2018, the provider enters into an alternative arrangement with the Health Board to provide out of hours services, the end date is the date the provider commences providing out of hours services under the alternative arrangement, or such other date as the Health Board and the provider agree.

(4) The provider’s duty to provide out of hours services under the agreement will terminate with effect from 0800 hours on the end date specified in paragraph (3) unless the Health Board and the provider agree a different date or time.

(5) Nothing in -paragraphs (1) to (4) prevents the provider and the Health Board from agreeing a different date for the termination of the provider’s duty under the agreement to provide out of hours services and accordingly varying the agreement in accordance with paragraph 61(1) of schedule 1.

(6) Prior to the provider’s duty to provide out of hours services under the agreement ceasing, the Health Board and the provider must discuss how to inform patients of any change to the out of hours services which the provider provides.

(7) The provider must, if requested by the Health Board, inform the provider’s registered patients of the change in service by the provider and the arrangements made for them to receive out of hours services by—

(a)placing a notice in the practice’s waiting room; and

(b)including the information in the practice leaflet.

Revocations

29.  The enactments specified in column 1 of schedule 7 are hereby revoked to the extent specified in column 3 of that schedule.

Consequential amendments

30.  Schedule 8 (consequential amendments) has effect.

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