Textual Amendments
9.—(1) Where, at any time, an integrated care provider contract terminates or expires or is varied so that it no longer requires the integrated care provider to provide primary medical services in respect of people who reside in the contractor’s former practice area—
(a)the Board must, subject to the conditions specified in paragraph 8(3), reactivate the contractor’s contract with effect from the date which falls immediately after the date on which the integrated care provider contract terminated or, as the case may be, expired or was varied; and
(b)the contractor must, with effect from that date, resume the provision of primary medical services under the contract to people who reside in the contractor’s former practice area.
(2) Where an integrated care provider contract terminates or expires or is varied as described in sub-paragraph (1), the Board must notify in writing each person who resides in the contractor’s former practice area and who was on the list of registered service users of the integrated care provider immediately before the date on which the integrated care provider contract terminated or, as the case may be, expired or was varied that—
(a)the contractor has resumed providing primary medical services under the contract from a specified date in respect of people who reside in the contractor’s former practice area; and
(b)the person will transfer onto the contractor’s list of registered patients from the date specified unless the person decides to register with another provider of primary medical services before that date.]