SCHEDULE 1Amendments to the GMS Contracts Regulations

Insertion of new paragraph 40A to Part 4 of Schedule 312

After paragraph 40 of Part 4 of Schedule 3 (factors relevant to assignments), insert—

Assignment of patients from outside practice area40A

Where the Board has assigned a person to a contractor’s list of patients in accordance with this Part, and that person resides outside a contractor’s practice area, regulation 30(4), (5) and (6) (variation of contracts: registered patients from outside practice area) are to apply as if the contractor had accepted that patient onto its list of patients in accordance with regulation 30(1) unless a contractor chooses to include that person in its list of patients for its practice area on assignment by the Board.