General Practitioners: Indemnity Scheme Debate
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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
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General Practitioners: Indemnity Scheme
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Excerpts(6 years, 10 months ago)
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Lord O’Shaughnessy
My noble friend makes an excellent point and I will certainly do so. There is an attempt not just to recruit many more GPs into service but to recruit them into hard-to-reach areas, such as rural areas, through a targeted recruitment campaign. I am sure that that is one of the areas that we will want to look at.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab)
My Lords, is it intended that locums will be covered by the scheme?
Lord O’Shaughnessy
My understanding is that the scheme is for all providers of primary medical care services under GMS, PMS and APMS contracts.