Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of aligning individual GP practices with individual care homes in order to facilitate easy management of face to face appointments for residents in care homes.

The Enhanced Health in Care Homes service specification for Primary Care Networks (PCNs) requires PCNs to ensure that every care home receives a weekly ‘home round’, delivered by a multidisciplinary team with appropriate medical input for residents who have been identified as a clinical priority for assessment and care.