Article 14 Newly registered patientsI1

England and Wales

(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 2 to the 1992 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 Local Health Board had not granted deferment of the obligation to invite him or her to participate in a consultation under paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 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 6 to the 2004 Regulations; or

(b)

the equivalent term of its default contract.

Annotations

Commencement

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

Footnotes

f1: Paragraph 14 was amended by S.I. 1998/682 and 2002/1896 (W.197).