The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022

Alternative premises for remote provision of services

7.  In Schedule 2 (other required terms)—

(1) for paragraph 5(2)(b) (attendance at practice premises), substitute—

“(b) the patient is—

(i) offered an appointment, for a time which is appropriate and reasonable having regard to all the circumstances, to attend the contractor’s practice premises again or participate in a telephone or video consultation; or

(ii) invited to make a request via an online consultation system,

and the patient’s health would not thereby be jeopardised.”;

(2) in paragraph 10(2)(c)(i) (duty of co-operation), omit “premises”;

(3) in paragraph 16A (NHS e-Referral Service (e-RD)), omit “premises” wherever it appears;

(4) in paragraph 43(3) (sub-contracting of clinical matters) after “sub-contractor” insert “as practice premises”; and

(5) in paragraph 44 (information to be included in a practice leaflet) for all references to “premises” substitute “practice premises”.