Article 18 Patient recordsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Where –

(a)

on or before 31st March 2004, a Board or the Agency had requested a relevant medical practitioner to send it the records relating to a patient under paragraph 41 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations; and

(b)

on 31st March 2004 that request had not yet been complied with,

the records requested shall be sent by the succeeding contractor to the Board as soon as possible.

(2)

Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had been informed of the death of a patient on his list by the Agency or had otherwise learned of the death of such a patient but on 31st March 2004 had not yet sent that patient’s records to the Agency in accordance with paragraph 41(e) of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Regulations, those records shall be sent to the Board by the succeeding contractor –

(a)

in a case in which the relevant medical practitioner was informed of the death by the Agency, within 14 days of the date on which he was so informed; or

(b)

in any other case, within one month of the date on which the relevant medical practitioner learned of the death.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 18 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)