The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Transfer of patients from lists

11.—(1) This regulation applies to the transfer of a person from a performer’s list or a pooled list to–

(a)the list of a Part II practitioner; or

(b)a performer’s list; or

(c)a pooled list,

where, in the case of sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), the list to which the patient transfers does not form part of the list in which that person was included immediately before transfer.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Health Board shall give effect to the transfer–

(a)on the date on which it receives notification of the acceptance of the person by the medical practitioner to whose list the patient has transferred or, in the case of a transfer to a pooled list, by the provider; or

(b)subject to the consent of the Health Board, from such date, not being earlier than the date of that consent, as may be agreed between the performer or, in the case of a pooled list, the provider from whose list the person has transferred and the registered medical practitioner, or as the case may be, the provider who has accepted the person.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to the transfer of a person in accordance with the Choice of Medical Practitioner Regulations, to a performer’s list where the performer is successor to a performer from whose performer’s list the person has transferred.

(4) The Health Board shall, within 14 days of transfer, notify the person transferred, and the performer or, in the case of a pooled list, the provider from whose list the person has transferred and the Part II practitioner, the performer or, in the case of a pooled list, the provider, to whose list the person has transferred, of the transfer.