Article 14 Newly registered patients

(1)

This article applies where, on 31st March 2004, a patient specified in paragraph (2)–

(a)

was entitled to be invited to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations^f1; and

(b)

had not been given such an invitation.

(2)

The patient referred to in paragraph (1) is a patient–

(a)

who, on or before 31st March 2004–

(i)

had applied for inclusion in a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients under regulation 2 or 3 of the Choice Regulations^f2 and whose application had been accepted; or

(ii)

had been assigned to a relevant medical practitioner’s list under regulation 4 of the Choice Regulations^f3; and

(b)

in respect of whom a Health Board had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations.

(3)

A patient to whom this article applies shall, on 1st April 2004 be regarded as a patient who falls within–

(a)

the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or

(b)

the equivalent term of its default contract.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 1998/660.
f2: Regulation 2 was amended by S.S.I. 2001/85 and Regulation 3 was amended by S.S.I. 2000/191 and S.S.I. 2001/85.
f3: Regulation 4 was amended by S.S.I. 2000/191 and S.S.I. 2001/85.