The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 No. 1862

SCHEDULE 3 E+W Other contractual terms

[F1 PART 2A E+W List 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 3 E+W Crown servants and family members returning to the United Kingdom: registration with a new practice

Crown servants and family members returning to the United Kingdom for more than three months: inclusion in list of patients of a new practice E+W

32F.— (1) A contractor must, if the contractor’s list of patients is open, include a qualifying person (“P”) in the contractor’s list of patients if—

(a) P is not registered as a patient with a provider of primary medical services,

(b) P is returning, or has returned, to the United Kingdom for a period of more than three months,

(c) P is not required to be treated as a previous patient of the contractor, and

(d) either—

(i) P makes an application for inclusion in that list (a “list application”), or

(ii) where P is a person to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies, a list application is made on their behalf by an appropriate person.

(2) 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 list application or to authorise a person to make such an application on their behalf.

(3) A list application may be made during the period commencing one month prior to the planned return date and ending 24 hours prior to that date.

(4) Where a contractor’s list of patients is closed, the contractor may, by virtue of this sub-paragraph, accept a list application if the applicant is an immediate family member of a registered patient.

(5) Paragraph 29(1)(a) or (d) does not apply in respect of a qualifying person who is included in the contractor’s list of patients by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) before their return to the United Kingdom.

(6) Where a contractor accepts a list application, the contractor—

(a) must give notice in writing to the Board of that acceptance (including the planned return date) as soon as possible, but

(b) is not required to provide primary medical services to the qualifying person before they return to the United Kingdom.

(7) The Board must, on receipt of a notice given under sub-paragraph (6)(a)—

(a) include the qualifying person in the contractor’s list of patients from the relevant date, and

(b) give notice in writing to the qualifying person or the appropriate person (as the case may be) of the acceptance.

(8) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (7)(a) “the relevant date” is the later of—

(a) the date on which the Board receives the notice given under sub-paragraph (6)(a), and

(b) the planned return date.

(9) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 32H.]