The National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

Doctors' lists

27.—(1) A Board shall prepare and keep revised up to date in respect of each doctor on its medical list, a list of the patients in its area for whom each doctor is for the time being responsible and shall from time to time furnish the doctor with information concerning persons added to or deleted from the list.

(2) Subject to the provisions of regulation 22(4), the name of a person accepted by a doctor for inclusion in his list shall be included in the list from the date on which notification of acceptance is received by the Board.

(3) Where a person for whose treatment a doctor is responsible—

(a) dies, or

(b) is absent from the United Kingdom for a period of 90 days, or

(c) leaves the United Kingdom with the intention of being away for a period in excess of 90 days, or

(d) enlists in Her Majesty’s Forces, or

(e) is serving a prison sentence or sentences totalling in the aggregate more than two years,

his name shall be deleted from the doctor’s list as from the date on which the Board first received notification of the death, absence, departure, enlistment or imprisonment.

(4) Any deletion from a doctor’s list caused by the transfer of a person to the list of another doctor, otherwise than in accordance with a notice given under regulation 22(3) and (4), shall take effect from the date on which the Board receives notification of the acceptance of the person by the last-mentioned doctor or, subject to the consent of the Board, on such date, not being earlier than the date of such consent as may be agreed between the doctors.

(5) Where a doctor has requested the Board to remove a person from his list in accordance with paragraph 9(1) of the terms of service, the removal shall take effect from the date mentioned in that paragraph.

(6) Where a doctor has notified the Board that he wishes to have a person removed from his list with immediate effect in accordance with paragraph 9(2) of the terms of service—

(a) the removal shall take effect at the time mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) of that paragraph, and

(b) on receipt of the notification the Board shall—

(i) in writing, acknowledge it and also give notice of the removal to the person concerned, and

(ii) take all reasonable steps to assign the person to another doctor before the end of the next working day, or as soon as possible thereafter, and regulation 20 shall apply to such an assignment as if the person had applied for an assignment in accordance with that regulation.

(7) Any other deletion from a doctor’s list shall take effect as from the date on which notice of deletion is sent by the Board to the doctor or from such other date, not being earlier than that date, as may be specified in the notice.