The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004

Carry over of approvals, applications, notices etc.

41.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), in a case to which this Part applies—

(a) any approval, authorisation or consent given by the Local Health Board for the purposes of the default contract and still in force on the date on which that default contract ceases to have effect, shall be deemed to be an approval, authorisation or consent for the purposes of the general medical services contract on the date on which that general medical services contract takes effect and any such approval, authorisation or consent shall be on the same terms and subject to the same conditions (if any) as applied to the approval, authorisation or consent given under the default contract;

(b) any application made to the Local Health Board by the default contractor under its default contract, and which has not been dealt with or determined on or before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect, shall be deemed to be an application made by the general medical services contractor under its general medical services contract and any time specified in the general medical services contract for dealing with any such application shall be deemed to run from the date on which the application was made under the default contract;

(c) any application or request made by a patient to the default contractor under its default contract and which has not been dealt with or determined on or before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect, shall be deemed to be an application or request made by the patient to the general medical services contractor under its general medical services contract and any time specified in the general medical services contract in relation to that application or request shall be deemed to run from the date on which the application or request was made under the default contract;

(d) any notice given to or served on the default contractor under its default contract by the Local Health Board which—

(i) requires it to provide or cease providing services, or

(ii) withdraws, suspends or varies an approval previously given to it by the Local Health Board,

from a date which is after the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect, shall be deemed to be a notice served on the general medical services contractor under its general medical services contract which takes effect on the date on which it would have taken effect had the default contract continued in force and any time specified in the general medical services contract for referring the matter to the NHS dispute resolution procedure shall be deemed to run from the date on which the notice was given to or served on the default contractor;

(e) subject to paragraph (2), any notification or information given to the Local Health Board or a patient by the default contractor under its default contract shall be deemed to be a notification or information given by the general medical services contractor under the equivalent term of its general medical services contract on the date on which the general medical services contract takes effect and any reference in the relevant term of the general medical services contract to the date on which the event referred to in the notification shall take effect shall be read as a reference to the date on which that event would have taken effect had the default contract remained in force;

(f) any report, notification or information (other than a notification required to be given under the term of the default contract equivalent to paragraph 84 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations) which, on the date on which the default contract ceased to have effect, was required to be given to any person by the default contractor under its default contract but had not been so given, shall be given by the general medical services contractor as if it was required to be given under the general medical services contract, subject to the modification that the timescale for giving any such report, notification or information shall be that which would have applied to the default contractor had the default contract remained in force;

(g) any notifications or acknowledgements required to be given by the Local Health Board to a default contractor under its default contract on the date on which it ceases to have effect but which had not been so given shall be given by the Local Health Board to the general medical services contractor as if it was required under the terms of the general medical services contract;

(h) any notifications required to be given by the Local Health Board under a default contract to a patient on the default contractor’s list of patients on the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect but which had not been so given, shall be given to that patient by the Local Health Board—

(i) if the patient is included in the list of patients of the general medical services contractor, as if the notification were required to be given under the general medical services contract, or

(ii) in any other case, as soon as possible after the default contract ceases to have effect;

(i) any request or inquiry made to the default contractor under the default contract but which has not been complied with on or before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect, shall be complied with by the general medical services contractor as if it was a request or inquiry made under the equivalent term of the general medical services contract and any time specified in the general medical services contract for responding to any such request shall be deemed to run from the date on which the request was made to the default contractor;

(j) any preference expressed by a patient under the default contract to receive services from a particular performer or class of performer under that default contract and which he or she has not withdrawn on or before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect shall, with effect from the date on which the general medical services contract takes effect, be regarded, for the purposes of that general medical services contract, as a preference expressed under the term of that contract which gives effect to paragraph 18 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations;

(k) any checks which the default contractor has made under the terms of its default contract which are equivalent to paragraphs 56 to 58 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations or steps which it has taken to satisfy itself under the terms of that contract equivalent to paragraphs 57(1)(b), 59 or 68(1) of that Schedule shall be regarded as checks made or steps taken by the general medical services contractor under the terms of its general medical services contract which give effect to those paragraphs;

(l) any records relating to a patient which are required to be sent to the Local Health Board by the default contractor under the term of its default contract which is equivalent to paragraph 72(6) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations but which have not been sent on or before the date on which the default contract ceases to have effect, shall be sent to the Local Health Board by the general medical services contractor by the date on which the default contractor would have been required to send them had its default contract not ceased to have effect;

(m) the reference to a warning given by the general medical services contractor in the term of the general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 20(3) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations shall be deemed to include a reference to a warning given by the default contractor.

(2) Where—

(a) pursuant to paragraph (1)(e), a notification is deemed to have been given by a general medical services contractor under the term of its contract which gives effect to paragraph 68(1) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations on the date on which the general medical services contract takes effect; and

(b) the notification under the equivalent provision of the default contract was given more than 28 days before the date on which the default contract ceased to have effect,

the right of the Local Health Board under the term of the general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 68 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations to object to the sub-contract covered by that notification shall not apply.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any action taken or required to be taken by either party to a default contract under—

(a) the dispute resolution procedure;

(b) the provisions relating to variation of the contract; or

(c) the provisions relating to termination of the contract,

contained in the default contract.