Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which GP practices have been identified by NHS England as potentially losing more than £3 per patient in 2014-15 following the withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee.

NHS England has published an anonymised list of ‘outliers' which can be found at:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gp-gms-practices.pdf

Because the information is commercially sensitive, details that could identify individual practices have not been released.

The Minimum Practice Income Guarantee is being phased out over a period of seven years because it is inequitable, and the money released will be reinvested into basic payments made to all General Medical Services practices.

NHS England is supporting the most affected practices.