The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Removal from the list of patients whose address is unknown E+W

33.  Where the address of a person who is on the contractor’s list of patients is no longer known to the Local Health Board and the Local Health Board reasonably believes this is not due to the patient being unable to provide proof of their address the Local Health Board may—

(a)give notice in writing to the contractor that it intends, at the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which the notice was given, to remove the person from the contractor’s list of patients, and

(b)at the end of the period referred to in sub-paragraph (a), remove the person from the contractor’s list of patients unless, before the end of that period, the contractor satisfies the Local Health Board that the person is a patient to whom it is still responsible for providing unified services.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 3 para. 33 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(2)