# The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004, Article 32: Patients not seen within three years


The term of a general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations (or the equivalent term of a default contract) shall be read as if the reference to a consultation or clinic provided by the general medical services contractor (or the default contractor) included a reference to a consultation or clinic provided by—
(a) the relevant medical practitioner in relation to whom it is a succeeding contractor; or
(b) in the case of a general medical services contract which takes effect immediately after a default contract between the same parties ceases to have effect, the contractor who held that default contract.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/865/article/32 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-personal-medical-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2004/article-32
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