The National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Removals from the list of patients accepted elsewhere as temporary residents

17.—(1) The Health Board must remove from the provider’s list of patients a patient who has been accepted as a temporary resident by another provider (by any arrangement) of essential services (or their equivalent) where it is satisfied, after due inquiry—

(a) that the person’s stay in the place of temporary residence has exceeded 3 months; and

(b) that the patient has not returned to the patient’s normal place of residence or any other place within the provider’s practice area.

(2) The Health Board must notify in writing of a removal under sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) the provider; and

(b) where practicable, the patient.

(3) A notification to the patient under sub-paragraph (2)(b) must inform the patient of—

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

(b) the name and address of the Health Board in whose area the patient is resident.