Health Services: Tourism

(asked on 10th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to support NHS trusts in areas with high volumes of tourists areas to help ensure the quality of treatment offered to residents.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 17th April 2019

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) provide a wide range of health care services based on their local population needs using their knowledge and links to the community in which they work, and will use these plans to decide how to best use their budgets to make sure they are delivering high quality care to their patients.

While general practitioner practices do not receive any extra funding for patients that register temporarily with them, the costs are factored into practices baseline funding through a temporary patient adjustment. Where a practice has faced a significant increase or decrease in the numbers of temporary patients requiring treatment from it, NHS England may review the amount used for the temporary patient adjustment.

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