Paragraph 3

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 13 para. 2A inserted by National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (General Medical Services) and (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) 2003 reg. 17
Sch 13, para 1 am (E) by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 2001 regs 1(4), 2(2), Schedule
Sch.13, para.4 added (as renumbered from sch.13 para.4) by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 1998 reg.14 (amending 1996/702, reg.7 (adding a duplicate para.4 to sch.13))
Sch.13, para.4 added by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 1996 reg. 7
Sch.13 substituted by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 1993 reg.5
Sch.13, para,4(c) revoked by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 1997 reg.5(2)(b)
Sch. 13 para. 1 words substituted by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) 2002 reg. 10 Sch. 7
Sch. 13 para. 1 words substituted by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 2002 reg. 2(2)(a) Sch.
Sch. 13 para. 1 word substituted by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 2002 reg. 2(2)(b) Sch.
Sch. 13 para. 1 word substituted by National Health Service (General Medical Services) 2002 reg. 2(2)(c) Sch.

The following information as respects the referral of patients to other services under the Act during the period of the report:

(a)

as respects those by the doctor to a specialist—

(i)

the total number of patients referred as in-patients,

(ii)

the total number of patients referred as out-patients,

by reference in each case to whichever of the following clinical specialities applies, and specifying in each case the name of the hospital concerned:

General Surgical
General Medical
Orthopaedic
Rheumatology (Physical Medicine)
Ear, Nose and Throat
Gynaecology
Obstetrics
Paediatrics
Ophthalmology
Psychiatry
Geriatrics
Dermatology
Neurology
Genito-urinary
X-ray
Pathology
Others (including plastic surgery, accident or emergency and endocrinology); and

(b)

the total number of cases of which the doctor is aware (by reference to the categories listed in sub-paragraph (a)) in which a patient referred himself to services under the Act.