Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of whether payments mechanisms to medical schools in the form of SIFT funding are resulting in general practices being underpaid.

Responsibility for the Service Increment for Teaching funding for clinical placements for undergraduate medical and dental students was transferred to Health Education England (HEE) from April 2013. Current rates for hospitals are subject to a national tariff, and those for general practices are subject to historic local agreement.

The Department and HEE are reviewing the funding for medical placements in GP practices. Until this review concludes, no changes are being planned to the funding of these placements.