The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Removal from the list of patients at the request of the relevant medical practitioner

6.—(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had notified the Agency that he wished to have a patient removed from his list of patients in accordance with paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations(1) but that removal had, on 31st March 2004, not yet taken effect, paragraph (2) shall apply.

(2) Except where paragraph (3) applies, the removal shall take effect as a removal from the list of patients of the succeeding contractor under –

(a) the term of his general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 20(8) of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference in that term to the eighth day after the Board receives the notice shall be read as a reference to the eighth day after the Agency received the notice sent under paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations; or

(b) the equivalent term of his default contract, subject to a modification to the same effect.

(3) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, the Agency had been –

(a) informed by the relevant medical practitioner under paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations that he was treating the patient at intervals of less than seven days but had not yet been notified by him that the patient no longer needed such treatment; or

(b) notified by the relevant medical practitioner under that paragraph that the person no longer needed treatment at intervals of less than seven days,

paragraph (4) shall apply.

(4) In a case which falls within paragraph (3), the removal shall take effect as a removal from the list of patients of the succeeding contractor on –

(a) the date on which the Board receives notification of the registration of the person with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent);

(b) the eighth day after the Agency received notice from the relevant medical practitioner that the person no longer needed treatment at intervals of less than seven days; or

(c) the eighth day after the Board receives notice from the succeeding contractor that the patient no longer needs treatment at intervals of less than seven days,

whichever is the sooner.

(1)

Paragraph 9 was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100