General Practitioners Recruitment

HC Deb 25 February 2002 vol 380 c981W

Dr. Murrison

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the NHS GP Golden Hello scheme. [34137]

Mr. Hutton

We announced the national health service general practitioner Golden Hello Scheme in March 2001 and, after consultation with stakeholders, introduced the scheme on 2 November 2001. We are committed to keeping the scheme under review and are monitoring take-up. It is, however, still too early to draw any conclusions beyond the fact that the scheme has been generally welcomed by GPs and by their representative groups, including the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association.