# The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004, Paragraph 23: Removals from the list of patients who have moved


(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where the Primary Care Trust is satisfied that a person on the contractor’s list of patients has moved and no longer resides in that contractor’s practice area, the Primary Care Trust shall—
(a) inform that patient and the contractor that the contractor is no longer obliged to visit and treat the person;
(b) advise the patient in writing either to obtain the contractor’s agreement to the continued inclusion of the person on its list of patients or to apply for registration with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent); and
(c) inform the patient that if, after the expiration of 30 days from the date of the advice mentioned in paragraph (b), he has not acted in accordance with the advice and informed it accordingly, the Primary Care Trust will remove him from the contractor’s list of patients.
(2) If, at the expiration of the period of 30 days referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c), the Primary Care Trust has not been notified of the action taken, it shall remove the patient from the contractor’s list of patients and inform him and the contractor accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/291/schedule/6/paragraph/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004/schedule-6/paragraph-23
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