HC Deb 24 January 1994 vol 236 c115W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list those general practitioners who will become fundholders in each region on 1 April.

Dr. Mawhinney

This information is not available centrally. Regional health authorities manage the general practitioner fundholding scheme and are responsible for admitting practices to the scheme.

Mr. Kevin Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the procedure for the continuing treatment of patients when a GP fundholder has overspent his budget and therefore run out of funds.

Dr. Mawhinney

Patients of general practitioner fundholders will not suffer because a fundholder overspends his budget. Any overspending will be met from regional health authority contingencies, but where overspending is the result of mismanagement the GP fundholder may have fundholding status withdrawn.