The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015

Attendance outside practice premises E+W

6.—(1) Where the medical condition of a patient is such that, in the reasonable opinion of the contractor—

(a) attendance on the patient is required; and

(b) it would be inappropriate for the patient to attend the contractor's practice premises,

the contractor must provide services to the patient at whichever of the places described in sub-paragraph (2) is, in the contractor's judgement, the most appropriate.

(2) The places described in this sub-paragraph are—

(a) the place recorded in the patient's medical records as being the patient's last home address;

(b) such other place as the contractor has informed the patient and [F1 NHS England] is the place where the contractor has agreed to visit and treat the patient; or

(c) another place in the contractor's practice area.

(3) Nothing in this paragraph prevents the contractor from—

(a) arranging for the referral of a patient without first seeing the patient, in any case where the patient's medical condition makes that course of action appropriate; or

(b) visiting the patient in circumstances where this paragraph does not place the contractor under an obligation to do so.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words 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