GP Fundholder Appeals (Hansard, 13 February 1997)

HC Deb 13 February 1997 vol 290 cc283-4W 284W

§ Mr. Livingstone
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of GP fundholder appeals to the Department of Health in protest against the budgets allocated to them by health authorities between 1990–91 and 1995–96 were upheld. [14846]

§ Mr. Malone
Until April 1996, regional health authorities were statutorily responsible for determining general practitioner fundholder budgets. There was no formal right of appeal to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State against these budgets.