PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners: Bristol (12 January 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the re-registration of patients previously registered at St Martin's GP Surgery, Knowle, Bristol to other surgeries prior to that surgery's closure on 30 December 2016.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

NHS England oversees patient re-registration processes and advises that exit planning for St Martin’s Surgery was robust. Patients were provided with support and written to twice with advice on re-registration.

NHS England advises that its south west team identified five practices within a two-mile radius of the existing surgery that could take on patients, and that a number of patients registered at these practices. NHS England found that a number of patients were living outside the St Martin’s Surgery boundary and were within the boundaries of other outlying practices. These patients were helped to find another practice. NHS England also identified individual patients who are vulnerable or have long-term conditions and helped them register elsewhere.

Answered by:
David Mowat (Conservative)
19 January 2017