HC Deb 21 October 1994 vol 248 c391W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information has to be published by fundholding practices.

Mr. Malone

All general practitioners are required to publish essential information for patients about available services in practice leaflets. In addition, general practitioner fundholders' audited fundholding accounts, and their contracts with hospitals and community units, are public documents and are available on request. General practitioner fundholders also publish annual patients charter statements setting out standards achieved by hospitals with which they hold contracts and detailing the handling of any complaints received.