Douglas Carswell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Carswell on 2016-01-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will provide additional resources to North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group to allow GP surgeries in that group’s area to take on new patients.

Alistair Burt

The Department is aware that three general practitioner practices in Clacton have temporarily closed their list to new patients. This is a matter for NHS England.

NHS England advises that it is working with these practices to agree actions needed to re-open their lists in the near future.