HC Deb 24 March 1994 vol 240 c415W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what basis general practitioners may charge a call-out fee to(a) an individual patient, (b) a voluntary organisation providing a community care service, (c) a family health service authority and (d) a district health authority.

Dr. Mawhinney

Under their terms of service general practitioners receive a fee from their family health services authority for making a visit to a patient between 10 pm and 8 am. GPs may not charge any call-out fee to patients.