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62073

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues on the ratio of GPs to patients; and what that ratio is in Tendring.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not issue guidance on the ratio of general practitioners (GPs) to patients. It is for each GP practice to ensure they are able to provide services to all their patients as set out in their contract with NHS England.</p><p> </p><p>The ratio of GPs to patients in Tendring is not collected centrally. Figures for North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group, which includes the district of Tendring, are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Patients per full time equivalent GP</p></td><td><p>All GPs full time equivalent per 100,000 population</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Essex</p></td><td><p>1,715</p></td><td><p>60.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Sources: </em>The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics; Office for National Statistics: Mid-Year Population Estimates</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/06/2014 14:53:53 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

62062

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure GPs are accessible to patients.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Through the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund, more than 7.5 million people in England will start to be offered increased access to local general practitioner (GP) services, including seven-day opening and appointments outside of office hours. The Fund is supporting over 1,110 practices covering every region as part of a pilot scheme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The PM Challenge Fund is for one year and patients are expected to see positive changes from services from June/July onwards. An interim evaluation report is due in November this year. The full and final report is expected to be published in the early part of 2015-16. There will be a rolling programme of feedback on the pilots with case studies available from the summer onwards to help spread best practice across the country.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the new GP contract introduced a new Enhanced Service, which includes a commitment to same day phone consultations with a professional in the GP surgery where necessary for the most at risk in the population.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/06/2014 14:55:49 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

62084

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to train and recruit more GPs in (a) Linton and Walton and (b) nationally.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	200958
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department set up Health Education England (HEE) to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England. HEE is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply for the future balancing need against demand, taking into account factors such as the age profile of the existing workforce, the impact of technology, and new drugs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has recognised the need to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce and between September 2010 and September 2013, the number of full time equivalent GPs has risen by 1,051. Additionally, the Department has included in the HEE mandate a requirement that “HEE will ensure that 50% of trainees completing foundation level training enter GP training programmes by 2016”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/06/2014 15:20:01 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

76800

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received from doctors on the reforms in GP contracts needed to increase the number of GPs.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	204730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State regularly meets with representatives of the medical profession, including British Medical Association and Royal College of General Practitioners, to discuss a variety of issues, including recruitment.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/07/2014 14:36:39 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

76801

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase GP numbers.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	204731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the Written Answer I gave him on 23 June 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, column 20W.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/07/2014 14:53:20 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name PQ204731 - Hansard Extract.docx title Hansard Extract
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

76793

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of GPs needed to eliminate any shortfall in primary health care.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	204732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department set up Health Education England (HEE) to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England. HEE is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply for the future balancing need against demand, taking into account factors such as the age profile of the existing workforce, the impact of technology, and new drugs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has recognised the need to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce and between September 2010 and September 2013, the number of full time equivalent GPs has risen by 1,051. Additionally, the Department has included in the HEE mandate a requirement that “HEE will ensure that 50% of trainees completing foundation level training enter GP training programmes by 2016”. This will support future growth in GP numbers.</p><p> </p><p>Further work is being undertaken by HEE to improve applications and fill rate in to GP training to support the mandate target of 3,250 appointments into GP training by 2016 in England. This includes a review of the GP recruitment process, developing a pre-GP year to give exposure to prospective GP applicants of the specialty and careers advice for foundation doctors and medical students.</p><p> </p><p>In recognition of the contribution the GP workforce makes in the National Health Service, HEE will also undertake additional work on GP recruitment and retention, return to practice and reducing attrition rates, all of which will play a part in increasing the GP workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Department commissioned the Centre for Workforce Intelligence to conduct an in-depth review of the GP workforce. The report will be published shortly and will build on the preliminary findings published in March 2013.</p><p>The review will assess:</p><p>- current workforce numbers to forecast supply;</p><p>- key drivers affecting workforce demand; and</p><p>- regional variations in demand.</p><p>The review will make recommendations for future workforce planning. It will also address issues such as GP workload and the 2016 recruitment target and beyond, as well as wider issues around primary care delivery.</p><p> </p><p><em>Transforming Primary Care</em>, which was published in April 2014 by the Department and NHS England and set out actions being taken towards the vision of personalised, proactive care. Transforming Primary Care made the following commitment;</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that we have a workforce ready to meet the challenges of the future, we are planning to make available around 10,000 primary and community health and care professionals by 2020, in support of the shift in how care will be provided'.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/07/2014 15:01:36 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

429403

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase the number of GPs; and what steps he is taking to ensure that employment terms and conditions for GPs encourage employment in areas with (a) an elderly demographic and (b) a high workload.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	17026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government has committed to increasing the primary and community care workforce by 10,000 by 2020, including an additional 5,000 doctors working in general practice. Health Education England, NHS England, the Royal College of General Practitioners (GPs) and the British Medical Association’s GP Committee are working together on a ten point GP workforce plan to boost recruitment, encourage experienced GPs to remain in the profession and support GPs to return to practice.</p><br /><p>GP partners are independent contractors rather than National Health Service employees. However, the funding that practices receive does take account of the age profile of its patients and practice workload.</p><br /><p>The Carr-Hill formula calculates the share of funding that each practice receives based on its weighted patient list size adjusted for several factors including age. NHS England is currently reviewing the formula and this is intended to adapt it to better reflect deprivation and other factors of the registered practice profile that impact on practice workload. Additionally, the changes to the GP contract for 2014/15 moved funding from the Quality and Outcomes Framework to core practice funding and a new Avoiding Unplanned Admissions enhanced service, which requires practices to proactively case manage vulnerable patients through developing personalised care plans, including identifying a named accountable GP and care coordinator.</p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/11/2015 17:17:53 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

674293

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the retention of GP practices in areas with an elderly demographic.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	60389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not have a specific policy on the retention of general practitioner (GP) practices in areas with an elderly demographic.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for the provision of primary medical services in England. As such, it is for NHS England to ensure that patients in all areas have access to GP services. To assess GP service provision in an area, NHS England works with the Care Quality Commission and local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), using data from information sources such as the GP Patient survey and the primary care web tool.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of overall strategy, the provision of primary care will be part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) which is published in each local authority area and reported through the local Health and Well-being Board. The JSNA will identify any gaps and risks in the provision of primary care to the local population which, in turn, will then inform commissioning strategies for that area.</p><p> </p><p>GP Practices as independent contractors are responsible for ensuring that the practice clinical workforce is fit for purpose and able to meet the reasonable needs of population. Where practices are struggling to maintain a clinical workforce with the necessary skillmix, they can seek support from NHS England and their local CCGs. The Department is investing £40 million over four years targeted at supporting practice resilience.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 20/01/2017 12:06:42 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell