Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2017 to Question 112050 on General Practitioners: Attendance, whether his officials have requested that Dr Jeffries and Partners advise patients with certain conditions to seek advice before registering with the GP at hand service.

In accordance with the general practitioner choice guidance published by NHS England, all practices choosing to register patients who live outside of their practice boundary area should ensure that it is clinically appropriate and practical for a patient to be registered with them.

More information can be found in the document “Guidance on the new out of area patient registration arrangements”. This document can be accessed through the link below:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Guide-out-area-reg-1214.pdf