Louise Ellman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Ellman on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will assess the effectiveness of arrangements for delivering community health services to patients who reside outside the clinical commissioning group area in which their GP is based.

Alistair Burt

From 5 January 2015, all GP practices are able to register new patients who live outside the practice area.

NHS England has been reviewing the numbers of patients registering with practices away from their home address and have also been monitoring the number of patients who have had cause to seek in hours care whilst at their home address. To date, NHS England has not reviewed the effectiveness of community health services.

As at 1 November 2015, 33,347 patients in England were registered as out of area patients.