SCHEDULE 3Other contractual terms
F1PART 2AList of patients: Crown servants posted overseas and their family members
CHAPTER 2Crown servants and family members returning to the United Kingdom: registering with original or successor practice
Persons returning to the United Kingdom for three months or less: temporary registration with original or successor practice32E
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—
- a
the date on which the contractor accepts the qualifying person as a temporary resident, and
- b
the date on which the qualifying person returns to the United Kingdom;
- a
“the temporary residence period”, in relation to a qualifying person, means—
- a
the period of three months beginning with the relevant date, or
- b
such shorter period for which the contractor agreed to accept that person as a temporary resident.
- a
10
This paragraph is subject to paragraph 32H.
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)