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

Notices given to patients following variation of the contractE+W

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53.—(1) This paragraph applies where a contract is varied in accordance with regulation 29 and Part 8 of this Schedule and, as a result of that variation—

(a)there is to be a change in the range of services provided to the contractor's registered patients; or

(b)patients who are on the contractor's list of patients are to be removed from that list.

(2) Where this paragraph applies, [F1NHS England] must—

(a)give notice in writing to those patients of the variation and of its effect; and

(b)inform those patients of the steps that they may take to—

(i)obtain the services in question elsewhere, or

(ii)register elsewhere for the provision to them of essential services (or their equivalent).

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