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100183

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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, how many GP practices have (a) closed and (b) opened in (i) England, (ii) Greater London and (iii) Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	211216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Figures for NHS England and the NHS London area are shown in the following table. Figures for Wales are not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that these figures also include practice mergers and takeovers and do not provide an accurate representation of activity or service provision. For example, the merger of three practices would show as three practices closing and one opening. In many cases, practices listed in these figures as having closed will have in fact merged, and will continue to see patients.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>NHS England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>NHS London area</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Closed</p></td><td><p>Opened</p></td><td><p>Closed</p></td><td><p>Opened</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 (to 30 September)</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 28/10/2014 17:47:07 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

101144

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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 cost of Health Education England's third round of recruitment for general practice training posts.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	211940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The third round of national recruitment was one of the initiatives undertaken by Health Education England (HEE) to support recruitment into general practitioner (GP) training places. HEE continues to work with its partners to reach its mandate commitment of ensuring 3,250 trainees enter ST1 GP training by 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The estimated breakdown of costs is below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Description</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stage 2 Assessment</p></td><td><p>£10,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stage 3 Venue</p></td><td><p>£24,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Printing costs</p></td><td><p>£893</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assessors - clinical</p></td><td><p>£29,088</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assessors - non-clinical</p></td><td><p>£3,636</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moderators - clinical</p></td><td><p>£1,212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moderators - non clinical</p></td><td><p>£606</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trainee expenses</p></td><td><p>£25,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Role Players</p></td><td><p>£18,920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£113,785</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 03/11/2014 16:41:24 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

101419

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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, how many locum GPs there are in (a) Walsall South constituency and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	212376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>This data is not held centrally. This is because each general practitioner practice provides their own service/staffing arrangements so the information could only be gathered by asking all the individual practices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Neither Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group of the local NHS England Area Team have the locum numbers for the constituency (Walsall) and there is no national data available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 04/11/2014 16:26:11 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

101429

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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, pursuant to his Answer of 23 October 2014 to the Urgent Question on Five Year Forward View, Official Report, column 1044, what the process is that will ensure that the local NHS Foundation Trust is able to open GP surgeries with registered lists.
	tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
	tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
	uin	212368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The work announced in the Five Year Forward View relating to:</p><p> </p><p>- piloting the introduction of Multispecialty Community Providers and such providers taking over the running of their local hospital;</p><p> </p><p>- piloting the pooling of health and social care budgets between the National Health Service and the local authority delegated to Multispecialty Community Providers;</p><p> </p><p>- piloting the introduction of Primary and Acute Care Services; and</p><p> </p><p>- the process is that will ensure that Foundation Trusts are able to open general practitioner surgeries with registered lists</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>is now being developed by NHS England, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and Health Education England. Sector involvement will be essential to this future work and more details about how they will be taking this work forward, and who they will be engaging, will be announced by them in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor and NHS England share responsibility for the payment system. As set out in the Five Year Forward View, NHS England and Monitor have committed to working together to consider whether any adjustments are needed to the NHS payment regime to reflect the costs of delivering safe and efficient services for smaller providers relative to larger ones.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 212365 212366 212367 212369 question first answered 03/11/2014 17:50:05 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

101570

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2014
	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, how many patients have been removed from GPs' lists in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	South Antrim
	tabling member printed	Dr William McCrea
	uin	212464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 05/11/2014 15:08:56 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

101910

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	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, in what circumstances Alternative Provider Medical Services contracts are used by NHS England; and how many such contracts were used in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	212784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>General Medical Services (GMS) contracts are used in circumstances where at least one contractor is to be a General Medical Practitioner - there is provision for others to be partners in GMS contracts such as a National Health Service employee or a health care professional, providing services under the NHS Act 2006, but at least one partner must be a general practitioner (GP).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contracts are used where NHS England wants to offer the contract to a wider range of providers. These contracts may be held by independent or voluntary sector providers and other NHS providers as well as GP contractors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the numbers of practices by contract type for the years requested. 2014 data is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>GMS</p></td><td><p>4,554</p></td><td><p>4,538</p></td><td><p>4,581</p></td><td><p>4,458</p></td><td><p>4,345</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>APMS</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>275</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>271</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 212785 question first answered 04/11/2014 16:20:39 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

101911

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	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, in what circumstances General Medical Services contracts are used by NHS England; and how many such contracts were used in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	212785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>General Medical Services (GMS) contracts are used in circumstances where at least one contractor is to be a General Medical Practitioner - there is provision for others to be partners in GMS contracts such as a National Health Service employee or a health care professional, providing services under the NHS Act 2006, but at least one partner must be a general practitioner (GP).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contracts are used where NHS England wants to offer the contract to a wider range of providers. These contracts may be held by independent or voluntary sector providers and other NHS providers as well as GP contractors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the numbers of practices by contract type for the years requested. 2014 data is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>GMS</p></td><td><p>4,554</p></td><td><p>4,538</p></td><td><p>4,581</p></td><td><p>4,458</p></td><td><p>4,345</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>APMS</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>275</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>271</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 212784 question first answered 04/11/2014 16:20:39 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

101917

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	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, how many GP Super-Practices he plans to set up by the end of 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	212661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning general practice services. Their Five Year Forward View announced that they will support practices to become Multispeciality Community Providers (MCPs), sometimes referred to as ‘Super-Practices’. These could be in the form of single practices, loose federations of multiple practices, or mergers between practices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has advised that no assessment has been made as to how many MCPs will emerge by the end of 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 06/11/2014 13:32:47 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

156288

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2014
	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, how many GPs were in practice in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
	tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
	uin	215067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The annual National Health Service General and Personal Medical Services workforce census, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, shows the numbers of general practitioners (GPs) working in the NHS in England at 30 September each year. The total numbers of full-time equivalent GPs, including registrars and retainers working in the NHS in England for 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 are shown in the following table. The latest available statistics are as at 30 September 2013 and were published on 25 March 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>GPs are independent contractors who hold contracts with NHS England to provide primary healthcare services for the NHS.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong>Total GPs, including registrars and retainers in practice between 2010 and 2013</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>England as at 30 September full-time equivalent</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35,243</p></td><td><p>35,319</p></td><td><p>35,871</p></td><td><p>36,294</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> General practice workforce census</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 25/11/2014 17:42:09 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

156608

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	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, how many GPs there were in the Hull local authority area in each of the last five years; what the ratio of GPs to population was in that area in those years; and what the ratio of GPs to population was for England in those years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	215319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent general practitioners (GP) (including retainers and registrars) in England, Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) area, and Hull NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area, from 2009-2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>36,085</p></td><td><p>35,243</p></td><td><p>35,319</p></td><td><p>35,871</p></td><td><p>36,294</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull PCT</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull NHS CCG</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. Office for National Statistics, Mid-Year Population Estimates (2011 census based).</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the ratio of full-time equivalent GPs (including retainers and registrars) per 100,000 population in England, Hull Teaching PCT area, and Hull NHS CCG area, from 2009-2013.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>69.6</p></td><td><p>67.5</p></td><td><p>67.1</p></td><td><p>67.5</p></td><td><p>67.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull PCT</p></td><td><p>60.4</p></td><td><p>63.6</p></td><td><p>63.5</p></td><td><p>63.8</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull NHS CCG</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>64.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. Office for National Statistics, Mid-Year Population Estimates (2011 census based).</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) in England, Hull Teaching PCT area, and Hull NHS CCG area, from 2009-2013.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>32,111</p></td><td><p>31,356</p></td><td><p>31,391</p></td><td><p>31,578</p></td><td><p>32,075</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull PCT</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull NHS CCG</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>151</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. Office for National Statistics, Mid-Year Population Estimates (2011 census based).</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the ratio of full-time equivalent GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) per 100,000 population in England, Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust area, and Hull NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area, from 2009-2013.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>62.0</p></td><td><p>60.1</p></td><td><p>59.6</p></td><td><p>59.5</p></td><td><p>60.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull PCT</p></td><td><p>58.4</p></td><td><p>60.5</p></td><td><p>59.4</p></td><td><p>58.6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull NHS CCG</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>58.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><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 (2011 census based).</p><p> </p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Data as at 30 September each year.</li><li>GP Workforce figures are only available by NHS organisations. Data for Hull Local Authority is not available.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ol start="3" type="1"><li>Figures are presented for the organisations that were in operation at the time of the relevant census. Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust was replaced by NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group in April 2013.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ol start="4" type="1"><li>Population figures are the ONS Resident Population figures not numbers of registered patients. The figures used are the latest available from ONS and may differ from previous NHS Workforce publications where estimates have since been updated.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 26/11/2014 12:42:49 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson