HC Deb 15 February 1994 vol 237 c665W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 21 January,Official Report, column 888, what actual examples she has of ways in which savings by general practitioner fundholders have been used for the benefit of patients.

Dr. Mawhinney

Fundholders are spending their savings in a number of ways—for example, reducing waiting times; and bringing more services into the practices. The rules governing how savings should be spent are in the National Health Service (Fundholding Practices) Regulations 1993, copies of which are in the Library.