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.”.