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

Removal from the list of patients accepted elsewhere as temporary residents

35.—(1) The Local Health Board must remove a person from the contractor’s list of patients where the person has been accepted as a temporary resident by another contractor or other provider of unified services (or their equivalent) where the Local Health Board is satisfied, after due inquiry that—

(a) the person’s stay in the place of temporary residence has exceeded 12 weeks, and

(b) the person has not returned to their normal place of residence or to any other place within the contractor’s practice area.

(2) The Local Health Board must give notice in writing of the removal of a person from a contractor’s list of patients under this paragraph—

(a) to the contractor, and

(b) where practicable, to that person.

(3) A notice given under sub-paragraph (2)(b) must inform the person of—

(a) that person’s entitlement to make arrangements for the provision to that person of unified services (or their equivalent), including by the contractor by which that person has been treated as a temporary resident; and

(b) the name, postal and electronic mail address and telephone number of the Local Health Board.