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32E.—(1) A contractor must accept a qualifying person to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies (“P”) as a temporary resident provided that the contractor is satisfied that—
(a)if P is in the United Kingdom, P is not being provided with essential services (or their equivalent) under any other arrangement in the locality where P is temporarily residing, or
(b)if P is not yet in the United Kingdom, when P arrives in the United Kingdom, P will not be provided with essential services (or their equivalent) under any other arrangement in the locality where P will be temporarily residing.
(2) This sub-paragraph applies to a qualifying person if—
(a)they are returning, or have returned, to the United Kingdom for a period of more than 24 hours but not more than three months,
(b)they are required to be treated as a previous patient of the contractor, and
(c)either—
(i)they make an application to be accepted as a temporary resident by the contractor (a “temporary resident application”), or
(ii)where they are a person to whom sub-paragraph (3) applies, a temporary resident application is made on their behalf by an appropriate person.
(3) This sub-paragraph applies to a person if they—
(a)have not attained the age of 16 years, or
(b)lack the capacity to make a temporary resident application or to authorise a person to make such an application on their behalf.
(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) it does not matter whether the contractor’s list of patients is open or closed.
(5) A temporary resident application may be made on or after the date which falls one month before the planned return date.
(6) Where a contractor accepts a temporary resident application, the contractor’s responsibility for the relevant qualifying person does not begin until the relevant date.
(7) Where a contractor wants to terminate its responsibility for a qualifying person accepted by it as a temporary resident under this paragraph before the end of the temporary residence period—
(a)the contractor must give notice, either orally or in writing, of that fact to the qualifying person or an appropriate person (as the case may be), and
(b)the contractor’s responsibility for the qualifying person is to cease seven days after the date on which the notice mentioned in paragraph (a) is given.
(8) The contractor must give notice in writing to [F2NHS England] of its acceptance of a qualifying person as a temporary resident—
(a)at the end of the period of three months beginning with the relevant date, or
(b)if the contractor’s period of responsibility for that person as a temporary resident came to an end earlier than the end of the three month period referred to in paragraph (a), at the end of that period.
(9) In this paragraph—
“relevant date” means the later of—
the date on which the contractor accepts the qualifying person as a temporary resident, and
the date on which the qualifying person returns to the United Kingdom;
“the temporary residence period”, in relation to a qualifying person, means—
the period of three months beginning with the relevant date, or
such shorter period for which the contractor agreed to accept that person as a temporary resident.
(10) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 32H.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 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)
F2Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1
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