# The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992, Paragraph 12: Services to patients


(1) Subject to paragraphs 3, 13 and 44, a doctor shall render to his patients all necessary and appropriate personal medical services of the type usually provided by general medical practitioners.
(2) The services which a doctor is required by sub-paragraph (1) to render shall include the following:
(a) giving advice, where appropriate, to a patient in connection with the patient’s general health, and in particular about the significance of diet, exercise, the use of tobacco, the consumption of alcohol and the misuse of drugs or solvents;
(b) offering to patients consultations and, where appropriate, physical examinations for the purpose of identifying, or reducing the risk of, disease or injury;
(c) offering to patients, where appropriate, vaccination or immunisation against measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria and tetanus;
(d) arranging for the referral of patients, as appropriate, for the provision of any other services under the Act; and
(e) giving advice, as appropriate, to enable patients to avail themselves of services provided by a local social services authority.
(3) A doctor is not required by sub-paragraph (1) or (2)—
(a) to provide to any person child health surveillance services, contraceptive services, minor surgery services nor, except in an emergency, maternity medical services, unless he has previously undertaken to the FHSA to provide such services to that person; or
(b) where he is a restricted services principal, to provide any category of general medical services which he has not undertaken to provide.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/635/schedule/2/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-12
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