NHS: Private Patients

Health written question – answered at on 19 December 2011.

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Photo of Richard Bacon Richard Bacon Conservative, South Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health

(1) what his Department's policy is on the referral of patients to the NHS from private health providers via a GP without any unconnected conditions having been identified during treatment; and if he will make a statement;

(2) what representations he has received on the practice of acute trust managers requiring referrals to the NHS from private health providers to be made via a GP when no unconnected conditions have been identified during treatment.

Photo of Simon Burns Simon Burns The Minister of State, Department of Health

Referrals to national health services where treatment will be funded by the NHS—other than for emergencies—should involve the patient's general practitioner. A trawl of the Department's correspondence database has not identified any representations on this matter.

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