Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England with severe mental health illness are registered with a GP; and how many such people had an annual physical health check in each year since 2010.

The latest data published by NHS Digital, for 2015/16 show there were 500,451 people on the mental health Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) register across England. This is a cumulative register of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and other psychoses and other patients on lithium therapy.

The Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set (CCG OIS) shows 54.3% of people registered with a general practitioner with a severe mental illness (SMI) received the complete list of physical checks in 2013/14 and 34.8% in 2014/15. Data is only available for 2013/14 and 2014/15. NHS England is exploring the reasons for the decrease in the CCG OIS data. As part of this work we are reviewing the role of financial and contractual levers and incentives such as QOF in driving performance in the delivery of physical health checks for people with SMI within primary care.