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The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (Note)

The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2004 No. 865

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Made 22nd March 2004

Laid before Parliament 23rd March 2004

Coming into force 1st April 2004

ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES

PART 1

GENERAL

1. - Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

PART 2

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES

2. - Application and interpretation of this Part

3. - Applications for inclusion in lists of patients

4. - Acceptance of applications for inclusion in lists of patients

5. - Removal from the list of patients at the request of the patient

6. - Removal from the list of patients at the request of the relevant medical practitioner

7. - Removals from the list of patients who are violent

8. - Removals from the list of patients who have moved

9. - Removals not reflected in the list of patients on 31st March 2004

10. - Applications for acceptance as a temporary resident

11. - Acceptance of temporary residents

12. - Termination of responsibility for temporary residents

13. - Provision of immediately necessary treatment

14. - Newly registered patients

15. - Appointments system

16. - Qualifications of performers

17. - Independent nurse prescribers and supplementary prescribers

18. - Repeatable prescribing services

19. - Patient records

20. - Rights of entry

21. - Refusal of approval of premises under paragraphs 29 and 29A of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations

22. - Withdrawal of approval of premises under paragraph 29A of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations

23. - Investigation of outstanding complaints

24. - Complaints relating to general medical services made after 31st March 2004

25. - Reports to a medical officer

26. - Inquiries about prescriptions and referrals

27. - Notification of deaths

28. - Arrangements with organisations providing deputy doctors

29. - Notification of sub-contracts under general medical services contracts

30. - Practice leaflet

31. - Medical examination of medical practitioners

32. - Patients not seen within three years

33. - Patients aged 75 years and over

34. - Arrangements for GP Registrars

35. - Refund of fees paid under paragraph 38(f) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations

36. - Annual reports

37. - Determination of question whether a substance is a drug

38. - Entry on to medical performers list of persons approved under regulation 18A or 18B of the 1992 Regulations

39. - Outstanding appeals against refusal of approval under regulation 18A or 18B of the 1992 Regulations

40. - Permission for use of facilities in private practice under section 72 of the 1977 Act

41. - Recovery of overpayments

42. - Continuation of pre-contract disputes relating to general medical services contracts

PART 3

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES CONTRACTS WHICH FOLLOW DEFAULT CONTRACTS

43. - Application and interpretation of this Part

44. - Carry over of approvals, applications, notices etc.

45. - Newly registered patients

46. - Temporary residents

47. - Provision of immediately necessary treatment

48. - Removals from the list of patients

49. - Requirement to provide dispensing services

50. - Sub-contracting

51. - Complaints

52. - Refund of fees

53. - Annual returns and reviews

54. - Carry-over of disputes between default and general medical services contracts

55. - Grounds for termination of the general medical services contract

56. - Notifications to patients affected by differences between the terms of a default and a general medical services contract

PART 4

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO PERSONAL MEDICAL SERVICES

57. - Definitions

58. - Existing pilot schemes

59. - Variation of transitional agreements

60. - Interpretation of transitional agreements

61. - Modification of the Implementation Directions for the purposes of transitional agreements

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