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1082386

registered interest
date	05/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average annual cost to a GP's surgery is of providing NHS GP funding formula funded primary care to someone between the ages of 20 to 49 years old.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	228781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>We do not collect information for primary medical care practices about the cost of providing care to individual patients or cohorts of patients.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/03/2019 18:24:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine previous answer version 106919 answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1046819

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the proposals in the NHS Long Term Plan for online GP appointments, what steps his Department is taking to ensure health services remain accessible to people without internet access.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	211831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Online appointments are being developed to enhance and support existing general practice services and will give patients more choice on how they access services. This approach is in addition to not a substitute for more traditional ways of seeing a general practitioner or nurse at a patient’s own registered practice. Patients who do not wish to use this way of accessing services are still able to get a face to face or telephone appointments.</p><p> </p><p>Everyone across the country can now also access general practice appointments in the evenings and weekends, which will provide an estimated nine million additional appointments per year. This means that patients can see a doctor, nurse or other member of the practice team at a time that is convenient to them, 365 days per years including on bank holidays.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/01/2019 17:12:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1046308

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the variation across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England in the ratio between GPs and their patients.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL13017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Each general practice is required to provide services to meet the reasonable needs of their registered population. There is no recommendation for how many patients a general practitioner (GP) should have, as the demand each patient places on their GP is different and can be affected by various factors, including rurality and patient demographics. The workforce required for each practice to meet patient needs also includes a range of health professionals in addition to GPs themselves, and the best skill mix is for practices to determine.</p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the GP workforce in England. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p>Last year, Health Education England recruited the highest number of GP trainees ever and the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERs) is attracting GP trainees to parts of the country where there have been consistent shortages of GP trainees. Over 500 trainees entered the TERs scheme in 2016-2018 and a further 276 are available in 2019.</p><p>NHS England has committed to further expanding community based multi-disciplinary teams and will provide funding for around 20,000 other staff in primary care networks by 2023/24. This builds on the extra 3,700 non-GP clinical staff already working in general practice, compared to 2015 and will mean bigger teams of staff, providing a wider range of care options for patients and freeing up more time for GPs to focus on those with more complex needs.</p><p>The recently published NHS Long Term Plan made a clear commitment to the future of general practice, with primary and community care set to receive at least £4.5 billion more in real terms a year by 2023/24 – meaning their funding will grow faster than the rising National Health Service budget. Since the launch of the Long Term Plan, NHS England and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee have agreed a five-year GP (General Medical Services) contract framework from 2019/20. The new contract framework will be essential to deliver the ambitions set out in the NHS Long Term Plan through strong general practice services.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/02/2019 12:46:01 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1042316

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of full-time practising GPs in (a) Hull clinical commissioning group, (b) the Yorkshire and the Humber NHS England North regional team area and (c) England in each of the last eight years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	209307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The attached tables provide the number of general practitioner (GPs) practicing full-time in Hull Clinical Commissioning Group, the Yorkshire and the Humber NHS England North regional team area and in England in the years 2015-18.</p><p> </p><p>We do not have data for the preceding four years.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the total number of GPs by headcount and by full-time equivalent are also provided for the purpose of comparison.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/01/2019 16:48:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ209307 tables.docx title PQ209307 attached tables
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1035261

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what duties are placed on clinical commissioning groups to ensure that public transport routes are available to GPs.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	205331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no duties placed on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to ensure that public transport routes are available to general practitioners. However, the Health and Social Care Act (2012) places specific duties on CCGs and NHS England to address health inequalities in relation to access and outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/01/2019 15:17:29 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1025311

registered interest
date	14/12/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent fully qualified GPs have been working in the NHS in England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	202303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The data requested are available in the following table, which sets out the number of full-time equivalent general practitioner (GP) partners, salaried GPs and GP retainers. GP registrars are excluded as they are not fully qualified GPs. Locums have been excluded as these figures are not comparable between 2015 and 2018. No reliable data for full-time equivalent GPs are available prior to September 2015.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Fully-qualified, full-time equivalent GPs (including GP partners, salaried GPs and GP retainers)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>29,296</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>28,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>27,926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>27,558</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>All data is as at 30 September.</li><li>Each period, figures contain estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid GP records. September 2015 – 15.5%, September 2016 – 13.7%, September 2017 - 5.4% and June 2018 - 5.0%</li><li>Full time equivalent refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours, 0.5 that they worked half time.</li><li>Figures shown do not include GPs working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres and walk-in centres</li></ol> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/12/2018 14:14:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1022825

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2018 to Question 188904, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the voluntary erasure code in cases where a GP is under investigation.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	200666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to assess the adequacy of the General Medical Council’s (GMC) voluntary erasure code in cases where a general practitioner (or any other doctor) is under investigation.</p><p> </p><p>As the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom the GMC sets the standards all doctors must follow to practise in the UK. It is responsible for how it discharges its statutory duties, including the processes for considering applications for voluntary erasure as set out in legislation.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 13/12/2018 12:05:18 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1012348

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to clinical commissioning groups on ensuring that they involve patients through Patient Participation Groups; and how he plans to monitor the effectiveness of (a) that guidance and (b) clinical commissioning groups involving patients; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	194575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England have not formally defined the term ‘seldom heard groups’, which is used by Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).</p><p> </p><p>NHS England published statutory guidance for CCGs and NHS England on patient and public participation in commissioning health and care. A copy of this guidance can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/participation/involvementguidance/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/participation/involvementguidance/</a></p><p> </p><p>The CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework has an indicator (50) within the leadership domain that assesses CCGs involvement of patients and the public against a range of criteria including equalities and health inequalities. The indicator is based on the statutory guidance and so provides an assessment of CCG performance in this area. The 2017/18 data is available on MyNHS.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 194574 question first answered 27/11/2018 17:14:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

1011674

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides on whether clinical commissioning groups can allow community groups representing clearly defined geographical areas to become Patient Participation Groups; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	194023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>In May 2017 Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) carried out a review of the 35 general practitioner (GP) practices in the borough. This showed that 24 (68%) practices had fully functional Patient Participation Groups (PPGs).</p><p> </p><p>In May 2018 Greenwich CCG undertook a further review which showed that 31 (88%) practices now had a fully functional PPG.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>NHS England does not provide guidance about whether community groups can become PPGs. PPGs are specific to GP practices and included in the GP contract as a way in which practices can engage with their practice population. CCGs should engage more widely than PPGs and we would expect them to connect with and engage with community and voluntary groups in their local communities. This is part of their duty to involve patients and the public and is covered in the guidance for CCGs last published in 2017. Greenwich CCG welcomes engagement opportunities with patient community groups to receive feedback on health services commissioned by the CCG. This would be outside of the formal remit of a Patient Participation Group as defined within national guidance.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 194022 question first answered 26/11/2018 17:46:01 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

1002660

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the voluntary erasure code in cases where a GP is under investigation.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	188904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the adequacy of the General Medical Council’s (GMC) voluntary erasure code in cases where a general practitioner (or any other doctor) is under investigation.</p><p> </p><p>The GMC is the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for considering and approving applications for voluntary erasure from the medical register.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/11/2018 11:50:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt