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

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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Regulation 74F:

reg. 74F omitted by S.I. 2019/776 reg. 8 (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Reg. 8 substituted immediately before IP completion day by virtue of S.I. 2020/1348, regs. 1, 4)

Changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Instrument associated Parts and Chapters:

Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Instrument (including any effects on those provisions):

Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(4) inserted by S.I. 2024/575 Sch. 1 para. 7(a)(ii)
Sch. 3 para. 18(3)(3A) substituted for Sch. 3 para. 18(3) by S.I. 2024/575 Sch. 1 para. 10

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74F.—(1) A contractor must—

(a)record the information specified in paragraph (2) relating to overseas visitors, where that information has been provided to it by a newly registered patient on a form supplied to the contractor by [F2NHS England] for this purpose; and

[F3(b)where applicable in the case of a patient, record the fact that the patient is the holder of a document—

(i)which is—

(aa)a European Health Insurance Card;

(bb)an S1 Healthcare Certificate; or

(cc)a document which, for the purposes of a listed healthcare arrangement as defined in regulation 1(3) of the Healthcare (European Economic Area and Switzerland Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, is treated as equivalent to a document referred to in sub-paragraph (aa) (“EHIC equivalent document”) or (bb) (“S1 equivalent document”); and

(ii)which has not been issued to or in respect of the patient by the United Kingdom,]

in the medical record that the contractor is required to keep under regulation 67 in respect of the patient.

(2) The information specified in this paragraph is—

(a)in the case of a patient who holds a European Health Insurance Card [F4or EHIC equivalent document] which has not been issued to the patient by the United Kingdom, the information contained on that card [F5or document] in respect of the patient; and

(b)in the case of a patient who holds a Provisional Replacement Certificate issued in respect of the patient’s European Health Insurance Card, the information contained on that certificate in respect of the patient.

(3) The information referred to in paragraph (2) must be submitted by the contractor to [F6NHS England]—

[F7(a)electronically at nhsdigital.costrecovery@nhs.net;]

(b)by post in hard copy form to EHIC, PDS NBO, NHS Digital, Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 2HH.

(4) Where the patient is the holder of an S1 Healthcare Certificate [F8or S1 equivalent document], the contractor must send that certificate [F9or document], or a copy of that certificate [F9or document], to the [F10the NHS Business Services Authority]—