The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

Removal from the list of patients accepted elsewhere as temporary residents

30.—(1) The Board must remove a person from a contractor’s list of patients where the person has been accepted as a temporary resident by another contractor or other provider of essential services (or their equivalent) in any case where the Board is satisfied, after due inquiry, that—

(a) the person’s stay in the place of temporary residence has exceeded three months; and

(b) the person has not returned to their normal place of residence or to any other place within the contractor’s practice area.

(2) The Board must give notice in writing of the removal of a person from a contractor’s list of patients under this paragraph—

(a) to the contractor; and

(b) where practicable, to that person.

(3) A notice given under sub-paragraph (2)(b) must inform the person of—

(a) that person’s entitlement to make arrangements for the provision to that person of essential services (or their equivalent), including by the contractor by which that person has been treated as a temporary resident; and

(b) the name, postal and electronic mail address and telephone number of the Board.