Regulation 26 Temporary residents

(1)

A person requiring treatment who—

(a)

is not on the list of a doctor providing general medical services in the area of the locality where he is temporarily residing;

(b)

normally resides in a school or similar institution in the locality but is temporarily residing at home in that locality;

(c)

normally resides at home in the locality but is temporarily residing in any institution in that locality; or

(d)

is moving from place to place and is not for the time being resident in any place,

may apply to any doctor providing services in the locality in which he is temporarily resident to be accepted by him as a temporary resident.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person shall be regarded as temporarily resident in a place if, when he arrives in that place, he intends to stay there for more than 24 hours but not more than 3 months.

(3)

Subject to paragraph (4), a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (1) who is accepted as a temporary resident shall not be removed from the list of any doctor in which he is already included.

(4)

If the FHSA for the locality in which the temporary resident is included in any doctor’s list is satisfied, after due enquiry—

(a)

that his stay in the locality of temporary residence has exceeded 3 months; and

(b)

that he has not returned to that FHSA’s locality,

it shall thereupon remove him from that doctor’s list and, if practicable, inform him of that fact and of his entitlement to seek acceptance by any doctor, including the doctor by whom he has been treated as a temporary resident, in the locality in which he is living, and of the name and address of the FHSA for that locality.