Nusrat Ghani – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nusrat Ghani on 2016-02-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients are registered at each GP surgery in Wealden constituency; what the capacity of each such surgery is; and how many such surgeries are oversubscribed.

Alistair Burt

NHS England advises that the Wealden constituency includes practices from two clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) – High Weald Lewes Havens CCG and Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG.

NHS England advises that surgeries do not have a specific maximum number of patients allowed to register at a general practitioner (GP) surgery. If a practice considers that it has too many patients registered, or wishing to register, then it may request a temporary list closure, try and recruit more GPs/nurses, or may extend its premises.

NHS England confirms that none of these surgeries currently have closed lists.

NHS England has provided the information as shown in the following tables.

GP practices in the High Weald Lewis Havens CCG area, with current list sizes (number of registered patients)

Source: NHS England. Validated but unpublished information on GP practice list sizes from an approved statistical collection.

GP practices in Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG area, with current list sizes (number of registered patients)

Source: NHS England. Validated but unpublished information on GP practice list sizes from an approved statistical collection.