General Practitioners: Registration

(asked on 19th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in England are not registered with a GP; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of a publicity campaign to raise awareness of the need to be registered with a GP to receive a covid-19 vaccination.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th January 2021

No estimate has been made of the number of people in England not registered with a GP surgery.

The General Practice COVID-19 vaccination programme 2020/21 Enhanced Service Specification, the agreement under which general practices will deliver COVID-19 vaccinations under, enables practices working within their Primary Care Network groupings from shared vaccination sites to vaccinate unregistered patients. Individuals who are not registered with a general practitioner (GP) will therefore be able to access the vaccine.

While no major campaign is currently planned around registering with a GP practice, NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to highlight the importance of being registered through a range of channels including the National Health Service website. As part of the vaccination programme, there is ongoing work to ensure that the NHS communicates with all eligible people, so it is clear how they can get vaccinated.

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