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Paragraph 32 Assignment of patients to lists: open lists

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

A Primary Care Trust may, subject to paragraph 34, assign a new patient to a contractor whose list of patients is open.

(2)

In this paragraph and in paragraphs 33 and 35 to 37, a “new” patient means a person who—

(a)

is resident (whether or not temporarily) within the area of the Primary Care Trust;

(b)

has been refused inclusion in a list of patients of, or has not been accepted as a temporary resident by, a contractor whose premises are within such an area; and

(c)

wishes to be included in the list of patients of a contractor whose practice premises are within that area.