GP At Hand

(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, Pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2017 to Question 112050 on General Practitioners: Attendance, which NHS body advised that the GP at hand service may not be suitable for certain categories of patients.


Answered by
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Steve Brine
This question was answered on 20th December 2017

In accordance with the general practitioner choice guidance published by NHS England, all practices choosing to register patients who live outside of their practice boundary area should ensure that it is clinically appropriate and practical for a patient to be registered with them.

More information can be found in the document “Guidance on the new out of area patient registration arrangements”. This document can be accessed through the link below:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Guide-out-area-reg-1214.pdf

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