Article 14 Newly registered patientsI1

Northern Ireland

(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 16(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 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 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; and

(b)

in respect of whom a Board had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him to participate in a consultation under paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 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 his default contract.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 14 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 16 was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 100