Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Question 35425 on General Practitioners: Finance, how regularly GP practice lists of registered patients are updated.

General practices are responsible for maintaining their registered patient lists in a current and accurate state, so that it does not contain any duplicated patients, namely patients who have either died or who have moved and/or are registered elsewhere, that may cause list inflation.

The global sum is a capitated payment, calculated based on the size of a practice’s registered list of patients, weighted using the Carr-Hill formula. These payments are calculated quarterly to reflect changes in registered patients lists and other factors such as patient list turnover, sex, and age of registered patients.