The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Approval of an application to close a list of patients E+W

39.—(1) Where the Local Health Board approves an application to close a contractor’s list of patients, the Local Health Board must—

(a) give notice in writing to the contractor of its decision as soon as possible and the notice (“the closure notice”) must include the details specified in sub-paragraph (2), and

(b) at the same time as the Local Health Board gives notice to the contractor, send a copy of the closure notice to—

(i) the Local Medical Committee (if any) for the area in which the contractor provides services under the contract, and

(ii) any person who the Local Health Board consulted in accordance with paragraph 38(8).

(2) The closure notice must include—

(a) the period of time for which the contractor’s list of patients is to be closed which must be—

(i) the period specified in the application, or

(ii) where the Local Health Board and the contractor have agreed in writing to a different period, that different period, and

in either case, the period must not be less than 12 weeks and not more than 1 year,

(b) the date on which the closure of the list of patients is to take effect (“the closure date”), and

(c) the date on which the list of patients is to re-open.

(3) Subject to paragraph 41, a contractor must close its list of patients with effect from the closure date and the list of patients must remain closed for the duration of the closure period as specified in the closure notice.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 3 para. 39 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(2)