Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 1 May (HL7025), which three GP practices opt out of providing contraceptive services to their registered patients.

Due to data protection requirements, we are not able to name the three practices as this could lead to identification of individuals working at these practices.

The current general practitioner (GP) contract allows practices to opt out of providing contraceptive services to their registered patients. For any GP practices opting out of providing contraceptive Services, the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) would advise the local authority that the practices in question were no longer providing that service. The local authority would subsequently ensure provision for the affected patients through their commissioned services. The practices would have to inform their patients on where they could access contraceptive services.