The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2004/291 |
| Year | 2004 |
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2004 No. 291
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
The National Health Service (General Medical Services
Contracts) Regulations 2004
Made - - - - - 8th February 2004
Laid before Parliament 9th February 2004
Coming into force - - 1st March 2004
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART 1
General
1. Citation, commencement and application
2. Interpretation
PART 2
Contractors
3. Conditions: general
4. Conditions relating solely to medical practitioners
5. General condition relating to all contracts
6. Reasons
7. Appeal
8. Prescribed period under section 28D(1)(bc) of the Act
PART 3
Pre-contract Dispute Resolution
9. Pre-contract disputes
PART 4
Health Service Body Status
10. Health service body status
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PART 5
Contracts: Required Terms
11. Parties to the contract
12. Health service contract
13. Contracts with individuals practising in partnership
14. Duration
15. Essential services
16. Additional services
17. Opt outs of additional and out of hours services
18-20. Services generally
21. Certificates
22-23. Finance
24. Fees and charges
25. Arrangements on termination
26. Other contractual terms
PART 6
Functions of Local Medical Committees
27. Functions of Local Medical Committees
PART 7
Transitional Provisions
28. Commencement
29. Additional services
30-32. Out of hours services
SCHEDULES
Schedule 1—Repeat Dispensing Forms
Part 1—Repeatable prescription
Part 2—Batch issue
Schedule 2—Additional services
1. Additional services generally
2. Cervical screening
3. Contraceptive services
4. Vaccinations and immunisations
5. Childhood vaccinations and immunisations
6. Child health surveillance
7. Maternity medical services
8. Minor surgery
Schedule 3—Opt outs of additional and out of hours services
1. Opt outs of additional services: general
2. Temporary opt outs and permanent opt outs following temporary opt
outs
3. Permanent opt outs
4. Out of hours opt outs where the opt out notice is served after
30th September 2004
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5. Out of hours opt outs where the opt out notice is served before
1st October 2004
6. Informing patients of opt outs
Schedule 4— List of prescribed medical certificates
Schedule 5—Fees and charges
Schedule 6—Other contractual terms
Part 1—Provision of services
1. Premises
2. Attendance at practice premises
3. Attendance outside practice premises
4. Newly registered patients
5. Patients not seen within three years
6. Patients aged 75 years and over
7. Clinical reports
8. Storage of vaccines
9. Infection control
10. Criteria for out of hours services
11. Standards for out of hours services
12-13. Duty of co-operation in relation to additional, enhanced and out of
hours services
Part 2—Patients
14. List of patients
15. Application for inclusion in a list of patients
16. Temporary residents
17. Refusal of applications for inclusion in the list of patients or for
acceptance as a temporary resident
18. Patient preference of practitioner
19. Removal from the list at the request of the patient
20. Removal from the list at the request of the contractor
21. Removals from the list of patients who are violent
22. Removals from the list of patients registered elsewhere
23-24. Removals from the list of patients who have moved
25. Removals from the list of patients absent from the United Kingdom etc.
26. Removals from the list of patients accepted elsewhere as temporary
residents
27. Removals from the list of pupils etc. of a school
28. Termination of responsibility for patients not registered with the
contractor
29. Closure of lists of patients
30. Approval of closure notice by the Primary Care Trust
31. Rejection of closure notice by the Primary Care Trust
32. Assignment of patients to lists: open lists
33. Assignment of patients to lists: closed lists
34. Factors relevant to assignments
35. Assignments to closed lists: determinations of the assessment panel
36. Assignments to closed lists: NHS dispute resolution procedure
relating to determinations of the assessment panel
37. Assignments to closed lists: assignments of patients by a
Primary Care Trust
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