SCHEDULE 3Other contractual terms
PART 2Patients
Termination of responsibility for patients not registered with the contractor I137
1
Where the contractor has—
a
received an application for the provision of medical services other than unified services—
i
from a person who is not included (and who is not applying to be included) in the contractor’s list of patients,
ii
from a person that the contractor has not accepted as a temporary resident, or
iii
made on behalf of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii), by a person specified in paragraph 23(4), and
b
accepted the person making the application or on whose behalf the application is made as a patient for the provision of the service in question,
the contractor’s responsibility for that person terminates in the circumstances described in sub-paragraph (2).
2
The circumstances described in this sub-paragraph are that—
a
the contractor is informed that the person no longer wishes the contractor to be responsible for the provision of the service in question, or
b
it comes to the contractor’s attention that the person—
i
no longer resides in the area for which the contractor has agreed to provide the service in question, or
ii
is no longer included in the list of patients of another contractor to whose registered patients the contractor has agreed to provide that service.
3
The contractor must keep a written record of terminations under this paragraph and of the reasons for those terminations and must make this record available to the Local Health Board on request.