NHS Shared Business Services

(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his oral contribution of 27 June 2017, Urgent Question, column 472, on NHS Shared Business Service, how much has been provided to GP surgeries to cover additional administrative costs; what the total amount to be made available to GP surgeries is; and what the number of GP surgeries that have received such funding is in (a) Batley and Spen constituency, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) the UK.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 3rd July 2017

As set out in the National Audit Office Report (Investigation: clinical correspondence handling at NHS Shared Business Services, 27th June 2017):

“NHS England has made payments to 7,330 GP practices totalling £2.5 million to compensate them for the time spent assessing the potential for patient harm due to the delay in the correspondence, and for reporting the outcome of their assessments to NHS England.“

Information by parliamentary constituency is not available.

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