Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 18 June 2019.
Anne Marie Morris
Conservative, Newton Abbot
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what population exceptions are in place for Primary Care Networks covering large rural and remote areas.
Seema Kennedy
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
NHS England has allowed rurality as an exception for meeting the definition of a Primary Care Network (PCN). As set out in the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service (under paragraph 3.2) commissioners may waiver the 30,000-minimum population “where a PCN serves a natural community which has a low population density across a large rural and remote area”.
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