General Practitioners: Registration

(asked on 31st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on NHS patients being asked to deregister from GP practices as a result of being considered to be out-of-area.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 7th February 2022

General Practices have a practice boundary area which may include an outer boundary area to enable their existing patients who move home within these areas to remain registered with the practice if they wish, unless the practice believes it would not be in patients’ interests to do so or it otherwise has reasonable grounds for removal. A practice may also grant continued registration to a patient who has moved outside of its practice boundary area, provided the patient has not registered with another practice as a permanent patient. Where a practice wishes to remove a patient from its practice list, the practice must provide the reason for removal in writing to the patient.

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