PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Primary Health Care: Finance (10 June 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to allocate additional funding to primary care services; whether he has plans to allocate funding for the establishment of additional GP practices in (a) Enfield North, (b) Greater London and (c) England; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

We have committed at least an additional £1.5 billion in cash terms for general practice until 2023/24. This is in addition to the £4.5 billion real terms annual increase announced for primary and community care in the NHS Long Term Plan.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have delegated commissioning responsibilities for primary medical services to all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). CCGs are responsible for planning primary medical care services provision in their areas, including carrying out needs assessments and decisions in relation to the management of Primary Medical Services Contracts and decisions in relation to the establishment of new general practitioner practices. NHS Enfield CCG advised that it recently commissioned an independent review of primary care capacity which concluded that there was sufficient provision of primary care in the north west locality of Enfield for the current and future population.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
30 June 2021