Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 127W, if he will list the outlier practices and the amount each is forecast to lose as a result of removing performance indicators from the Quality Outcomes Framework.

The Department does not hold this information centrally, but details of practices identified by NHS England have been sent to area teams.

As part of the changes to the General Medical Services (GMS) contract from April 2014, we have reduced the Quality and Outcomes Framework by more than a third. These changes are intended to free up space for general practitioners to provide more proactive and personalised care for their patients which includes their new responsibility of being accountable for all of their patients aged 75 and over.

These changes were part of changes to GMS contract negotiated with the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association.