My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has met with both Richard Vautrey and Helen Stokes-Lampard as representatives of the profession to discuss a range of issues, including, but not limited to, the creation of Primary Care Networks.<\/p>
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In addition, Departmental officials have been in regular communication with both the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the British Medical Association (BMA) throughout the development of the Primary Care Networks policy and will continue these close working relationships as the networks are implemented.<\/p>
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The Primary Care Network Directed Enhanced Service specification, which sets out the timetable for networks, was agreed with the General Practitioners Committee and the BMA as part of negotiations on the contract for 2019/20.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4455", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Seema Kennedy"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South Ribble"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Seema Kennedy"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-05-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-05-16T15:44:50.49Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-05-13", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Primary Care Networks"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he had with (a) the British Medical Association, (b) the Royal College of General Practitioners and (c) other representative groups before announcing the timetable for the creation of primary care networks.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4657", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Anneliese Dodds"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Oxford East"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Anneliese Dodds"} ], "uin" : "253710"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1126284", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1126284/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Each Primary Care Network (PCN) is required to appoint a Clinical Director. Under the terms of the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) contract specification published by NHS England in March 2019, PCNs can claim funding for this role. It is a population-based payment calculated using a baseline equivalent of 0.25 Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) per 50,000 registered population size, as at 1 January 2019 (one WTE being paid £137,516 in 2019/20). This is a payment of £0.51430 per registered patient for the period 1 July 2019 to 31 March 2020 (which equates to £0.057 per patient per month), reflecting the fact that the Network Contract DES begins in July 2019 - this will be the point at which the Clinical Directors take up their posts.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4455", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Seema Kennedy"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South Ribble"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Seema Kennedy"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-05-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-05-16T15:49:49.05Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-05-13", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "General Practitioners: Finance"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to allocate additional funding to GP practices to enable the recruitment and appointment of Primary Care Network medical directors.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4657", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Anneliese Dodds"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Oxford East"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Anneliese Dodds"} ], "uin" : "253711"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 2, "type" : "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"} }