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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/380",
  "legislation_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "Information relating to the referral of patients to other services under the Order during the period of the report—\n(a) as respects those by the doctor to specialists—\n(i) the total number of patients referred as in-patients;\n(ii) the total number of patients referred as out-patients,\nby reference in each case to the clinical speciality which applies and specifying in each case the name of the hospital concerned;\n(b) the total number of cases of which the doctor is aware (by reference to the clinical speciality) in which a patient referred himself to services under the Order.",
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  "status": "prospective",
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      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 3 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
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