{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-49",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1862",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Notices to NHS England",
  "text": "(1) In addition to any requirements to give notice elsewhere in these Regulations, the contractor must give notice in writing to NHS England as soon as reasonably practicable of—\n(a) any serious incident that, in the reasonable opinion of the contractor, affects or is likely to affect the contractor's performance of its obligations under the contract;\n(b) any circumstances which give rise to NHS England's right to terminate the contract under paragraph 65, 66 or 67;\n(c) any appointments system which the contractor proposes to operate and the proposed discontinuance of any such system;\n(d) any change in the address of a registered patient of which the contractor is aware; and\n(e) the death of any patient of which the contractor is aware.\n(2) The contractor must give notice in writing to NHS England about any person, other than a registered patient or a person whom the contractor has accepted as a temporary resident, to whom the contractor has provided essential services in the form of immediately necessary treatment as described in regulation 17(7) or (9).\n(3) The contractor must give notice to NHS England under sub-paragraph (2) before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the services described in that sub-paragraph were provided.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/schedule/3/paragraph/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:48.208183+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}