The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which general medical and pharmaceutical services are provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. Regulations 2, 3 and 7 make provision for Health Boards to remove a person from a doctor’s list of patients with immediate effect where requested to do so by a doctor as a result of an act of actual or threatened violence. The doctor is to remain responsible for immediately necessary treatment for a period of 14 days, or until the person is transferred to the list of another doctor, whichever is the shorter.