Article 29 Patients not seen within three yearsI1

England and Wales

The term of a general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations (or the equivalent term of a default contract) shall be read as if the reference to a consultation or clinic provided by the general medical services contractor (or the default contractor) included a reference to a consultation or clinic provided by—

(a)

the relevant medical practitioner in relation to whom it is a succeeding contractor; or

(b)

in the case of a general medical services contract which takes effect immediately after a default contract between the same parties ceases to have effect, the contractor who held that default contract.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 29 in force at 1.4.2004, see art. 1(1)