The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2004

Lists of patients for default contracts and general medical services contracts entered into following arrangements under regulation 25 of the 1992 Regulations or article 11

30.—(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Local Health Board enters into a default contract or a general medical services contract pursuant to article 3 with an individual medical practitioner for whom, immediately prior to the commencement of that contract, it had in place temporary arrangements under regulation 25(2) or (6) of the 1992 Regulations(1), it must include on the contractor’s list of patients at the start of that default, or, as the case may be, general medical services contract, all of the patients who, on the date on which the temporary arrangements came to an end were—

(a) temporarily assigned to other medical practitioners under paragraph (14A) of regulation 25; or

(b) included on the list of the medical practitioner for whom the temporary arrangements were in place,

apart from, in the case of a general medical services contract, any such patient who lives outside the practice area as specified in that contract and who became registered with either the medical practitioner for whom the temporary arrangements are in place, or the medical practitioner or practitioners providing the temporary arrangements otherwise than as the result of an assignment under regualtion 4 of the Choice Regulations.

(2) Where, after 31st March 2004, a Local Health Board enters into a general medical services contract pursuant to article 3 with an individual medical practitioner for whom, immediately prior to the commencement of that contract, it had in place contractual arrangements under article 15, it must include on the contractor’s list of patients at the start of that general medical services contract all of the patients who were, on the date on which those contractual arrangements came to an end, on the list or lists of patients prepared and maintained by the Local Health Board for the purpose of those contractual arrangements, apart from any such patient who lives outside the practice area as specified in the general medical services contract and whose inclusion in the list of patients did not result from an assignment under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations or under the contractual arrangements under article 15.

(1)

Regulation 25(2) was amended by S.I. 1995/3093, 1998/682, 2001/3742 and 2002/2469; regulation 25(6) was amended by S.I. 2002/2469.