Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2017 to Question 112428, what the cost of the GP at hand service has been to the public purse to date.

GP at Hand is a practice that holds a General Medical Service contract. Practices are paid per weighted registered patient and, as patients register or de-register with GP at Hand, this will alter the payment to the practice. Funding follows the registered patients, so if patients are leaving their current practice for GP at Hand the funding will move to that practice. The practice list sizes are counted and payments adjusted on the first of each quarter and so any payment adjustments will be made in January.