HC Deb 02 May 1996 vol 276 cc603-4W
Ms Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the grounds on which a general practitioner can remove an NHS patient from their list. [27146]

Mr. Malone

Under his terms of servicea general practitioner may have any person removed from his list and is required to notify the health authority in writing that he wishes to have a person removed from his list.

Professional guidance issued by the General Medical Council in May 1992 states that it is unacceptable to abuse the right to refuse to accept patients by applying criteria of access to the practice list which discriminate against groups of patients on grounds of their age, sex, sexual orientation, race, colour, religious belief, perceived economic worth or the amount of work they are likely to generate by virtue of their clinical condition.

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