PART 2Amendment of the GMS Contracts Regulations

Insertion of new regulation 71A into the GMS Contracts Regulations

5.  After regulation 71 of the GMS Contracts Regulations (patient online services) insert—

Patient access to online services

71A.(1) This regulation applies to any contractor which has less than ten per cent of its registered patients registered with the contractor’s practice to use the online services which the contractor is required under regulation 71 to promote and offer to its registered patients (“patient online services”).

(2) A contractor to which this regulation applies must agree a plan with the Board aimed at increasing the percentage of the contractor’s registered patients who are registered with the contractor’s practice to use patient online services..