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require any medical practitioner who diagnoses a terminal illness in a patient |
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to inform the Secretary of State; to require the Secretary of State to give the |
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patient information about his entitlement to, and a claim form for, attendance |
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allowance and disability living allowance; and for connected purposes. |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Duty to provide information to terminally ill patients about entitlement to |
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attendance allowance and disability living allowance |
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(1) | Any medical practitioner who diagnoses a terminal illness in a patient must |
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notify the Secretary of State that the patient is terminally ill as soon as |
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reasonably practicable after the patient— |
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(a) | has been informed of the diagnosis, and |
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(b) | has consented to the notification. |
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(2) | A notification under subsection (1) must be made in such manner as may be |
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prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory |
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(3) | For the purposes of subsection (1) “terminally ill” has the same meaning as in |
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section 66(2)(a) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4). |
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(4) | The Secretary of State must, as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving a |
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notification under subsection (1), send the patient to whom the notification |
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(a) | such information as the Secretary of State considers appropriate about |
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the patient's entitlement to an attendance allowance and to disability |
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(b) | the forms necessary to claim those allowances. |
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