We wanted to make you aware that the amendments to GMS and PMS regulations in England to commence from October have now been laid before Parliament and published. These mainly bring into force elements of the GP contract agreement from earlier this year.
The amendments include:
· Requirement for monthly data submissions to the NHS Digital Workforce Collection
· Requirement to participate in the existing GP appointments data collection
· Requirement for practices to ensure patient registration data is regularly updated
· Removal of patients who move outside of the practice catchment area: the practice is responsible for the patient’s care for up to 30 days (unless and until the patient registers at another practice) but is not responsible for home visits or out of hours services during that period.
· A modification to make sure that patients who have previously been removed from a practice list and been put onto a violent patient scheme cannot be permanently refused readmission to a practice list if they have been correctly discharged from that scheme.
· Patient assignment to any practice within the patient’s local CCG, rather than within the practice area.
· Patient assignment as part of a list dispersal
· An exemption to the ban on subcontracting a subcontract in order to allow PCNs greater flexibility to deliver the DES
· Final cancellation of CQC registration is a ground for termination of a GMS contract
· Other minor amendments to wording without significant change to the meaning