SCHEDULE 3 E+WOther contractual terms

[F1 PART 2A E+WList of patients: Crown servants posted overseas and their family members

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 Pt. 2A inserted (1.10.2021) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/995), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 4(e) (with reg. 3)

CHAPTER 1 E+WInterpretation of Part 2A

Qualifying persons to be treated as previous patients of contractors E+W

32B.— (1) For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, a qualifying person (“P”) is required to be treated as a previous patient of a contractor if—

(a) where sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 32A applies to P, P was removed from the contractor’s, or a predecessor contractor’s, list of patients under paragraph 29(1)(a) or (d) following the posting mentioned in paragraph 32A(2) or a previous overseas posting;

(b) where sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 32A applies to P, R (within the meaning of that sub-paragraph) was removed from the contractor’s, or a predecessor contractor’s, list of patients under paragraph 29(1)(a) or (d) following the posting mentioned paragraph 32A(2) or a previous overseas posting;

(c) where sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 32A applies to P, C (within the meaning of that sub-paragraph) was removed from the contractor’s, or a predecessor contractor’s, list of patients under paragraph 29(1)(a) or (d) following the posting mentioned in paragraph 32A(4) or a previous overseas posting;

(d) where sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 32A applies to P, P was removed from the contractor’s, or a predecessor contractor’s, list of patients under paragraph 29(1)(a) or (d) following P accompanying M (within the meaning of sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 32A) on the posting mentioned in paragraph 32A(5) or on a previous overseas posting.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph “predecessor contractor”, in relation to a contractor (“A”)—

(a) where A’s status as a contractor is that of a partnership following a variation in accordance with paragraph 58, means the individual medical practitioner referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph;

(b) where A’s status as a contractor is that of an individual medical practitioner following a variation in accordance with sub-paragraph (11) of paragraph 59, means the partnership referred to in sub-paragraph (1) or (4) (as the case may be) of that paragraph;

(c) where otherwise than as set out in paragraph (a) or (b), A assumes any of the obligations of another contractor (“B”) to provide services originally provided by B under B’s contract, means B.]