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PART 5 Agreements: required terms
15A.Patients who should not be tested for, or vaccinated against, coronavirus: confirmation of exemption
21A.Disclosure of information about NHS earnings: contractors and sub-contractors
21AA.Disclosure of information about NHS earnings: jobholders
21B.Calculation of NHS earnings for the purposes of regulations 21A and 21AA
24A.Variation of agreements: integrated care provider contracts
25.Variation of agreements: registered patients from outside practice area
27A.Suspension of agreement terms or of enforcement of agreement terms while a disease is or in anticipation of a disease being imminently pandemic etc.
PART 11 Records and information
62.Electronic transfer of patient records between GP practices
62A.Transfer of patient records between GP practices: time limits
64ZA.Patient online services: provision of online access to coded information in medical record and prospective medical records
64ZB.Patient online services: provision of online access to full digital medical record
64ZC.Patient online services: providing and updating personal or contact information
64ZD.Patient online services: provision of an online consultation tool
64ZG.Meaning of “appropriate software” for the purposes of regulations 64ZD, 64ZE and 64ZF
64B.Patient access: other availability of directly bookable appointments
67C.Information relating to indicators no longer in the Quality and Outcomes Framework
67D.Information relating to alcohol related risk reduction and dementia diagnosis and treatment
67G.Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Central Alerting System
67H.Collection of data relating to appointments in general practice
67I.Collection of data concerning use of online consultation tools and video consultations
PART 15 General transitional provision and saving, consequential amendments and revocations
NHS England’sNHS England’sList of prescribed medical certificates
20.Refusal of applications for inclusion in list of patients or for acceptance as a temporary resident
28.Removal from the list of patients absent from the United Kingdom etc.
29.Removal from the list of patients accepted elsewhere as temporary residents
31.Termination of responsibility for patients not registered with the contractor
PART 2A List of patients: Crown servants posted overseas and their family members
31D.Crown servants and family members returning to the United Kingdom for more than three months: inclusion in list of original practice or successor practice
31E.Crown servants and family members returning to the United Kingdom for three months or less: temporary registration with original or successor practice
PART 4 Assignment of patients to lists
38.Assignment of patients to list of patients: open and closed lists
40.Assignments to closed lists: composition and determinations of the assessment panel
41.Assignments to closed lists: NHS dispute resolution procedure relating to determinations of the assessment panel
42.Assignments to closed lists: assignments of patients by NHS England
PART 8 Variation and termination of agreements
57.Termination by NHS England for the provision of untrue etc. information
59.Termination by NHS England where patients' safety is at risk or where there is risk of financial loss to NHS England
61.Termination by NHS England: remedial notices and breach notices
62.Termination by NHS England: additional provisions specific to agreements with qualifying bodies
64.Agreement sanctions and the NHS dispute resolution procedure
Suspension and reactivation of personal medical services agreements
4.Notice of intention to suspend a personal medical services agreement
5.Suspension of a personal medical services agreement: general
6.Notice of intention to reactivate a personal medical services agreement
8.Reactivation of a personal medical services agreement: general
9.Termination, expiry or variation of an integrated care provider contract
1.Amendment of the Primary Medical Services (Sale of Goodwill and Restrictions on Sub-contracting) Regulations 2004
2.Amendment of the Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009
3.Amendment of the National Health Service (Functions of the First-tier Tribunal relating to Primary Medical, Dental and Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 2010
4.Amendment of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013
5.Amendment of the National Health Service ( Clinical Commissioning Groups – Disapplication of Responsibility) Regulations 2013
6.Amendment to the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013
7.Amendment of the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2015
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