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13.—(1) An agreement must specify—
(a)the services to be provided under the agreement;
(b)subject to paragraph (3), the address of each of the premises to be used by the contractor or by any sub-contractor for the provision of such services;
(c)the persons to whom such services are to be provided under the agreement; and
(d)where the agreement requires the contractor to provide essential services, the area as respects which persons resident in it are, subject to any other terms of the agreement relating to patient registration, entitled to—
(i)register with the contractor, or
(ii)seek acceptance by the contractor as a temporary resident; and
(e)where the agreement requires the contractor to provide essential services, whether, at the date on which the agreement comes into effect, the contractor's list of patients is open or closed.
(2) An agreement—
(a)may also specify an area, other than the contractor's practice area, which is to be known as the outer boundary area as respects which a patient who—
(i)moves into that outer boundary area to reside, and
(ii)would like to remain on the contractor's list of patients,
may remain on that list if the contractor so agrees, notwithstanding that the patient no longer resides in the contractor's practice area; and
(b)which specifies an outer boundary must specify that, where a patient remains on the contractor's list of patients as a consequence of sub-paragraph (a), the outer boundary area is to be treated as part of the contractor's practice area for the purposes of the application of any other terms and conditions of the agreement in respect of that patient.
(3) The premises referred to in paragraph (1)(b) do not include—
(a)the homes of patients; F1...
(b)any other premises where services are provided on an emergency basis [F2; or
(c)premises where services are provided under regulation 13A (services: remote provision outside practice premises).]
[F3(4) An agreement must specify that where the contractor proposes to provide private services in addition to primary medical services, to persons other than its patients the provision must take place—
(a)outside of the hours the contractor has agreed to provide primary medical services; and
(b)on no part of any practice premises in respect of which [F4NHS England] has agreed with that contractor to make payments in relation to the costs of those premises save where the private services are those specified in regulation 18(2B).]
Textual Amendments
F1Word in reg. 13(3) omitted (1.10.2022) by virtue of The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/935), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2 para. 2(a)
F2Reg. 13(3)(c) and word inserted (1.10.2022) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/935), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2 para. 2(b)
F3Reg. 13(4) inserted (1.10.2019) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1137), regs. 1(2), 19
F4Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1
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