§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health in what circumstances fund-holding general practitioner practices are permitted to pool budgets for extra-contractual referrals with their local district health authority so as to ensure equity of treatment for patients of fund-holding and non-fund-holding general practitioners.
§ Dr. MawhinneyGeneral practitioner fund holders do not have a separate budget for extra-contractual referrals. All purchases made by general practitioner fund holders are subject to contracts. In their budgets, fund holders receive only their patients' fair share of national health service resources.
§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health on what criteria funds are awarded to fund-holding general practitioner practices(a) in their initial year of operation and (b) in subsequent years.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe criteria for awarding funds to general practitioner fund holders are set out in "General Practice Fundholding: Guidance on Setting Budgets for 1993–94", a copy of which is available in the Library.
§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list, geographically by district health authority area, the name and address of each fund-holding general practitioner practice, the date upon which the practice achieved fund-holding status, the amount of money awarded to the practice in 1993–94 for the purchase of 497W services covered by the fund-holding regulations, the number of patients on the practice's list on the day that its funding was allocated, and the amount of funding per capita awarded to each practice for services covered by the fund-holding regulations.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThis information is not available centrally.
§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what average level of funding per capita was allocated in 1993–94 to fund-holding general practitioner practices in(a) England, (b) each regional health authority area and (c) each district health authority area to enable fund-holding practices to purchase those services covered by the fund-holding regulations.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe average level of funding allocated to general practitioner fund holders per capita in England in 1993ߝ94 was £152.
The average level of funding allocated to GP fund holders per capita by regional health authority in 1993–94 is shown in the table.
£ Northern 166 Yorkshire 163 Trent 141 East Anglia 156 North West Thames 156 North East Thames 128 South East Thames 154 South West Thames 139 Wessex 153 Oxford 134 South Western 169 West Midlands 156 Mersey 163 North Western 143 The average level of funding allocated to GP fund holders per capita by district health authority is not available centrally.