Gift Registers
Just a reminder to all practices about gift registers.
Under nGMS 2004 124
124 - (1) The contractor shall keep a register of gifts which-
(a) are given to any of the persons specified in sub-paragraph (2) by or on behalf of-
(i) a patient,
(ii) a relative of a patient, or
(iii) any person who provides or wishes to provide services to the contractor or its patients in connection with the contract; and
(b) have, in its reasonable opinion, an individual value of more than £100.00.
It is required that each practice keeps a register of gifts and that this is available to the PCTs on reasonable request.
The register details are set out as follows
(5) The register referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall include the following information-
(a) the name of the donor;
(b) in a case where the donor is a patient, the patient's National Health Service number or, if the number is not known, his address;
(c) in any other case, the address of the donor;
(d) the nature of the gift;
(e) the estimated value of the gift; and
(f) the name of the person or persons who received the gift.
(6) The contractor shall make the register available to the Primary Care Trust on request.
FS August 2010
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