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, whether it is permissible under the General Medical Services contract for a GP Practice to exclude certain patients from registering with that Practice.

Under the terms of their contracts, general practices may refuse an application to be included in the practices’ list of registered patients.

They must have reasonable grounds for doing so, for example, where the patient lives outside the practice boundary. However, the grounds for refusing to accept a patient on the list must not relate to the patient’s race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, disability or medical condition.