NHS Shared Business Services Debate

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Tom Pursglove

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Points of Order
Monday 27th February 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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For the second time, it was £2.2 million.

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Will the Secretary of State reassure the House that appropriate staffing resources have been made available throughout to deal with the backlogs, not just nationally but in the east midlands?

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We have always been concerned to make sure that, because of the extra administrative work involved in going through more than 700,000 records, other patients using the NHS do not find that their care is delayed. We made extra resources available for GP practices so that they could do that without interrupting the ordinary work that they have to do for their patients.

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