HC Deb 24 October 1994 vol 248 c447W
Mr. Hinchcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the extent to which(a) GP fundholders and (b) non-fundholding GPs make use of emergency hospital admissions.

Mr. Malone

As part of our plans for developing national health service purchasing, we shall be reviewing contracting for emergency admissions in a number of sites, including the use general practitioners make of these services.

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients have been removed from(a) general practitioners' fundholding practice registers and (b) non-general practitioners' fundholding practices in each of the last three years.

Mr. Malone

All general practitioners are bound by the requirements of their terms of service when removing patients from their list. Data collected by family health services authorities on patient movement between general