There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015, Paragraph 26.
26.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where [F1NHS England] is satisfied[F2, or is notified by the contractor] that a person on the contractor's list of patients has moved and no longer resides in the contractor's practice area, [F1NHS England] must—
(a)inform both the person and the contractor that the contractor is no longer obliged to visit and treat that person;
(b)advise the person in writing to either obtain the contractor's agreement to that person's continued inclusion in the contractor's list of patients or to apply for registration with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent); and
(c)inform the person that if, after the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the date on which the advice mentioned in paragraph (b) was given, that person has not acted in accordance with that advice and informed [F1NHS England] accordingly, that person will be removed from the contractor's list of patients.
(2) If, at the end of period of 30 days mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c), [F1NHS England] has not been informed by the person of the action taken, [F1NHS England] must remove that person from the contractor's list of patients and inform that person and the contractor of that removal.
Textual Amendments
F1Words 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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