The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Removals from the list of patients registered elsewhere

19.—(1) The Health Board must remove a patient from the contractor’s list of patients if—

(a) the patient has subsequently been registered with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent) in the area of the Health Board; or

(b) it has received notice from another Health Board, Local Health Board, the National Health Service Commissioning Board(1), or Regional Health and Social Care Board, that the patient has subsequently been registered with a provider of essential services (or their equivalent) outside the area of the Health Board.

(2) A removal in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) will take effect—

(a) on the date on which the Health Board receives notification of the registration of the person with the new provider; or

(b) with the consent of the Health Board, on such other date as has been agreed between the contractor and the new provider.

(3) The Health Board must notify the contractor in writing of patients removed from its list of patients under sub‑paragraph (1).

(1)

Established under section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41). Section 1H was inserted by section 9(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) and was amended by S.I. 2012/1831.