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10.—(1) Where a contractor does not provide to its registered patients or to persons whom it has accepted as temporary residents—
(a)a particular service; or
(b)out of hours services, either at all or in respect of some periods or some services,
the contractor must comply with the requirements specified in sub-paragraph (2).
(2) The requirements specified in this sub-paragraph are that the contractor must—
(a)co-operate in so far as is reasonable with any person responsible for the provision of that service or those services;
(b)comply in core hours with any reasonable request for information from such a person or from the Board relating to the provision of that service or those services; and
(c)in the case of out of hours services—
(i)take reasonable steps to ensure that any patient who contacts the contractor's practice premises during the out of hours period is provided with information about how to obtain services during that period;
(ii)ensure that the clinical details of all out of hours consultations received from the out of hours provider are reviewed by a clinician within the contractor's practice on the same working day as those details are received by the practice or, exceptionally, on the next working day;
(iii)ensure that any information requests received from the out of hours provider in respect of any out of hours consultations are responded to by a clinician within the contractor's practice on the same day as those requests are received by the practice, or on the next working day;
(iv)take all reasonable steps to comply with any systems which the out of hours provider has in place to ensure the rapid, secure and effective transmission of patient data in respect of out of hours consultations; and
(v)agree with the out of hours provider a system for the rapid, secure and effective transmission of information about registered patients who, due to chronic disease or terminal illness, are predicted as more likely to present themselves for treatment during the out of hours period.
(3) Nothing in this paragraph requires a contractor whose agreement does not include the provision of out of hours services to make itself available during the out of hours period.
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