The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004

Removals from the list of patients absent from the United Kingdom etc.

25.—(1) The Primary Care Trust shall remove a patient from the contractor’s list of patients where it receives notification that that patient—

(a) intends to be away from the United Kingdom for a period of at least three months;

(b) is in Her Majesty’s Forces;

(c) is serving a prison sentence of more than two years or sentences totalling in the aggregate more than that period;

(d) has been absent from the United Kingdom for a period of more than three months; or

(e) has died.

(2) A removal in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) shall take effect—

(a) in the cases referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (c) from the date of the departure, enlistment or imprisonment or the date on which the Primary Care Trust first receives notification of the departure, enlistment or imprisonment whichever is the later; or

(b) in the cases referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(d) and (e) from the date on which the Primary Care Trust first receives notification of the absence or death.

(3) The Primary Care Trust shall notify the contractor in writing of patients removed from its list of patients under sub-paragraph (1).