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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-52",
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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/52",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Notice of deaths",
  "text": "(1) The contractor must give notice in writing to NHS England of the death on its practice premises of a patient no later than the end of the first working day after the day on which that death occurred.\n(2) The notice given under sub-paragraph (1) must include—\n(a) the patient's name;\n(b) the patient's National Health Service number (where known);\n(c) the date and place of the patient's death;\n(d) a brief description of the circumstances (as known) surrounding the patient's death;\n(e) the name of any medical practitioner or other person treating the patient while the patient was on the contractor's practice premises; and\n(f) the name (where known) of any other person who was present at the time of the patient's death.",
  "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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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/schedule/3/paragraph/52",
    "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."
}