Article 14 Newly registered patients
This article applies where, on 31st March 2004, a patient specified in paragraph (2)—
was entitled to be invited to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14(5) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulationsf1; and
had not been given such an invitation.
The patient referred to in paragraph (1) is a patient—
who, on or before 31st March 2004—
had applied for inclusion in a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients under regulation 2 or 3 of the Choice Regulationsf2 and whose application had been accepted, or
had been assigned to a relevant medical practitioner’s list under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations; and
in respect of whom a Primary Care Trust had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations.
A patient to whom this article applies shall, on 1st April 2004, be regarded as a patient who falls within—
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
the equivalent term of its default contract.