The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Amendment of paragraph 17 to Part 2 of Schedule 3

7.  For paragraph 17 of Part 2 of Schedule 3 (list of patients), substitute—

“17.— (1) The Board must prepare and keep up to date a list of the patients who have been—

(a) accepted by the contractor for inclusion in the contractor’s list of patients under paragraph 18 and who have not been subsequently removed from that list under paragraphs 23 to 31; and

(b) assigned by the Board to the Contractor’s list of patients under—

(i) paragraph 39(1)(a), or

(ii) paragraph 39(1)(b) (by virtue of a determination of the assessment panel under paragraph 41(8) which has not subsequently been overturned by a determination of the Secretary of State under paragraph 42 or by a court).

(2) The contractor must, upon receipt of a reasonable written request from the Board—

(a) take appropriate steps as soon as is reasonably practicable, to correct and update patient data held on the practice’s computerised clinical systems, and where necessary register or deregister patients to ensure that the patient list is accurate; and

(b) provide information relating to its list of patients as soon as is reasonably practicable and, in any event, no later than 30 days from the date on which the request was received by the contractor, in order to assist the Board in the exercise of its duties under paragraph (1), contacting patients where reasonably necessary to confirm that their patient data is correct.”.