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Schedules

Schedule 1Amendments to the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

Continuity of care

8.  In Schedule 3, in paragraph 4 (contact with the practice)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (2)(a) omit “, and the patient’s health would not thereby be jeopardised”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (4)—

(i)in sub-paragraph (a) omit “and” and at the end of that sub-paragraph insert “, including the need to avoid jeopardising the patient’s health”;

(ii)at the end of sub-paragraph (b) insert “; and”;

(iii)after sub-paragraph (b) insert—

(c)any benefits to the patient of providing for continuity of the health care professional involved in their care and treatment..