GP Commissioning (Financial Information)
Oral Answers to Questions — Health
2:30 pm
Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed, Liberal Democrat)
I welcome the Minister's reply. As GP practices have always been treated as private partnerships and are not open to financial scrutiny or freedom of information requests, it is important that £80 billion of public spending is, in the way he describes, subject to scrutiny, including by this House.
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Richard Taylor
Posted on 7 Feb 2012 9:06 pm (Report this annotation)
It is my understanding that GPs, and their practices, are subject to the Freedom of Information Act, they are included via paragraph 43A of Schedule 1 of the Act, which describes which bodies are covered:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/schedule/1/parag...
They are covered only in relation to the provision of "primary medical services", which appears right and proportional to me.
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Richard Taylor
Cambridge
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