# The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015, Paragraph 27: Removal from the list of patients who have moved

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where NHS England is satisfied , or is notified by the contractor, that a person on the contractor's list of patients has moved and no longer resides in the contractor's practice area, NHS England must—
(a) inform both the person and the contractor that the contractor is no longer obliged to visit and treat that person;
(b) advise the person in writing to either obtain the contractor's agreement to that person's continued inclusion on the contractor's list of patients or to apply for registration with another provider of essential services (or their equivalent); and
(c) inform the person that if, after the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the date on which the advice mentioned in paragraph (b) was given, that person has not acted in accordance with that advice and informed NHS England accordingly, that person will be removed from the contractor's list of patients.
(2) If, at the end of the period of 30 days mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c), NHS England has not been informed by the person of the action taken, NHS England must remove that person from the contractor's list of patients and inform that person and the contractor of that removal.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/schedule/3/paragraph/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-27
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