Immediate and necessary emergency treatment |
‘Any person to whom the contractor has been requested to provide treatment... at any place in its practice area’ [reg.15 (6)] |
Management of terminal illness |
Registered patients and temporary residents |
Treatment of conditions from which recovery is generally expected |
Registered patients and temporary residents |
Treatment of chronic disease |
Registered patients and temporary residents |
Advice in connection with the patient’s health, including relevant health promotion advice |
Registered patients and temporary residents |
Referral of the patient for other services under the 1977 Act |
Registered patients and temporary residents |
Home visits |
Where contractor considers it inappropriate, because of a patient’s medical condition, for the patient to attend the practice premises |
Annual health checks |
Patients aged over 75 years |
Patients not seen within 3 years; newly registered patients |