Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, at the end of the process what assessment he has made of how many practices in (a) Tower Hamlets and (b) England will (i) lose and (ii) gain financially from the seven year reduction of the minimum practice income guarantees.

The Minimum Practice Income Guarantee payment is unfair because practices serving very similar populations are paid very different amounts per patient. The payments are being phased out over a seven-year period to allow practices time to adjust.

The money released by doing this will be reinvested in the basic payments made to all General Medical Services practices, which are based on numbers of patients and key determinants of practice workload, such as the age and health needs of patients.

NHS England has undertaken an analysis to identify the small number of practices that will lose the largest amount of funding per patient as a result of the phasing out of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee, and will work with those practices to ensure that high quality services for their local populations are maintained.