HC Deb 17 March 1993 vol 221 c305W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidelines are in force for the registration by general practitioners of people who have no fixed address;

(2) what plans she has to issue guidelines requiring general practitioners to take on any patient requesting registration and living in their practice area when the list is closed and notified as such to the family health service authority.

Dr. Mawhinney

We have no plans to issue such guidelines.

All patients, including people who have no fixed address, have the right to be registered with a general practitioner. This is reaffirmed in the patients charter.

Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has of the total number of people by region who have not registered with a general practitioner.

Dr. Mawhinney

This information is not available centrally.