The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Amendment of paragraph 24 of Schedule 2 to the PMS Agreements Regulations

15.  In Schedule 2 to the PMS Agreements Regulations (other contractual terms), in paragraph 24 (removal from the list of patients who are violent)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A) Where a contractor—

(a) accepts a person onto its list of patients; and

(b) subsequently becomes aware that the person has previously been removed from the list of patients of another provider of primary medical services—

(i) because the person committed an act of violence against any of the persons specified in sub-paragraph (2) (as read with sub-paragraph (2A)) or behaved in such a way that any of those persons feared for their safety; and

(ii) the other provider of primary medical services reported the incident to the police,

the contractor may give notice to the Board in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) that it wants to have the person removed from its list of patients with immediate effect.”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1A), any reference to “the contractor” in sub-paragraph (2) is to be read as a reference to the other provider of primary medical services referred to in sub-paragraph (1A), and sub-paragraph (2) is to be construed accordingly.”; and

(c) in sub-paragraphs (3), (4) and (5), for “sub-paragraph (1)” in each place where it appears, substitute “sub-paragraph (1) or (1A)”.