General Practitioners: Primary Care Trusts
Health
Anne McIntosh (- Shadow Minister, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Vale of York, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations he has received from general practitioners on their funding from primary care trusts.
Mike O'Brien (Minister of State (Health Services), Department of Health; North Warwickshire, Labour)
The Department and NHS Employers (responsible for negotiating the general practitioner (GP) contract on the Departments behalf) are in regular dialogue with the General Practitioner Committee (GPC) negotiating arm of the British Medical Association (BMA) regarding funding issues to the GP contract.
Most recent representations involved my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State contacting the chairs of both the BMA and GPC personally regarding his ministerial statement of