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<p>The Secretary of State announced on 12 October 2017 that the Government is planning
to develop a state-backed indemnity scheme for general practice in England, subject
to further work on relevant issues.</p><p> </p><p>We envisage the scheme would provide
clinical negligence cover to providers of general practitioner (GP) services (e.g.
GP contractors out-of-hours providers of GP services) through which the activities
of individual GPs would be covered from the point the scheme is established. It would
be available to all contractors who provide primary medical services: General Medical
Services, Primary Medical Service and Alternative Provider Medical Services plus any
other integrated urgent care delivered through NHS Standard Contracts. The cover would
include the activities of practice staff including other medical professionals working
for the practice in the provision of these contracted services, and students/trainees
working in this area.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions have yet to be made about inclusion
of doctors working in other public sector settings including prisons and the Ministry
of Defence. We are working with GPs and their representatives, other providers of
primary medical services and practice staff to develop the scheme and its scope so
as to work best for general practice, and for patients.</p>
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