{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Attendance outside practice premises",
  "text": "(1) Where the medical condition of a patient is such that, in the reasonable opinion of the contractor—\n(a) attendance on the patient is required; and\n(b) it would be inappropriate for the patient to attend the contractor's practice premises,\nthe contractor must provide services to the patient at whichever of the places described in sub-paragraph (2) is, in the contractor's judgement, the most appropriate.\n(2) The places described in this sub-paragraph are—\n(a) the place recorded in the patient's medical records as being the patient's last home address;\n(b) such other place as the contractor has informed the patient and NHS England is the place where the contractor has agreed to visit and treat the patient; or\n(c) another place in the contractor's practice area.\n(3) Nothing in this paragraph prevents the contractor from—\n(a) arranging for the referral of the patient without first seeing the patient in any case where the patient's medical condition makes that course of action appropriate; or\n(b) visiting the patient in circumstances where this paragraph does not place the contractor under an obligation to do so.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}