General Practitioners: Incentives

(asked on 26th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of doctors who have been awarded bonuses by clinical commissioning groups for limiting the number of patients they refer for cancer screening; and if he will make a statement.


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Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 29th March 2018

NHS England does not hold this information.

NHS England does not support bonus payments to general practitioners for reducing referrals.

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