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

Modification of the Choice Regulations for the purposes of transitional agreements

63.—(1) The modifications referred to in article 60(2)(d) are as follows.

(2) As if in regulation 1 a new paragraph (4) were added at the end as follows—

“(4) In these Regulations “contractor” and “transitional agreement” shall have the meanings given to them in Part 4 of the General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004.”.

(3) As if in regulation 2(1) there were substituted—

“(1) Any person who wishes to receive primary medical services under a transitional agreement may choose the doctor from whom he is to receive those services being a doctor who is primarily responsible for the performance of personal medical services under the transitional agreement, subject to the consent of that doctor.”.

(4) As if in regulation 5—

(a) paragraph (1) were substituted as follows—

“(1) Where a contractor is required to assign a patient to a doctor who performs personal medical services in connection with a transitional agreement to which the contractor is a party, the contractor shall assign the applicant to a doctor within the period of two days beginning on the day on which it received notice of the requirement to assign and shall, upon making that assignment, notify—

(a) the Primary Care Trust of the name of the doctor to whom the patient has been assigned; and

(b) the doctor of the assignment,

and the Primary Care Trust shall, on receipt of the notification under sub-paragraph (a) notify the patient of the doctor to whom he has been assigned.”;

(b) references to—

(i) the pilot scheme provider were to the contractor,

(ii) the applicant were to the patient, and

(iii) the pilot scheme were to the transitional agreement; and

(c) paragraphs (3), (5) and (6) were omitted.

(5) As if in regulation 7, the reference to a pilot scheme were to a transitional agreement.