The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004

Newly registered patients

14.—(1) This article applies where, on 31st March 2004, a patient specified in paragraph (2)—

(a) was entitled to be invited to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations(1); and

(b) had not been given such an invitation.

(2) The patient referred to in paragraph (1) is a patient—

(a) who, on or before 31st March 2004—

(i) had applied for inclusion in a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients under regulation 2 or 3 of the Choice Regulations and whose application had been accepted, or

(ii) had been assigned to a relevant medical practitioner’s list under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations; and

(b) in respect of whom a Local Health Board had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him or her to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations.

(3) A patient to whom this article applies shall, on 1st April 2004, be regarded as a patient who falls within —

(a) the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations; or

(b) the equivalent term of its default contract.

(1)

Paragraph 14 was amended by S.I. 1998/682 and 2002/1896 (W.197).