Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been allocated to the Special Allocation Scheme in each year since 2010.

The following table presents the number of patients that have been removed from general practitioner (GP) practice lists in England and placed on a Special Allocation Scheme between 2016 and 2018. Data prior to April 2016 was not collected or held centrally.

Notes:

- 2018 includes data to November 2018.

- 2016 includes data from April to December 2016.

NHS England has a responsibility to ensure that all patients can access good quality GP services. The Special Allocation Scheme was created to ensure that patients who have been removed from a practice patient list can continue to access healthcare services at an alternative, specific GP practice.