General Practitioners: Females

(asked on 18th April 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the cost of medical indemnity insurance premiums on the number of female GPs returning to work after maternity leave.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 26th April 2016

The Department and NHS England recognise that increasing medical indemnity costs are a significant issue for general practitioners (GPs), including for particular groups of the workforce, such as those GPs who may work part time.

The Department and NHS England will bring forward proposals for reviewing indemnity arrangements in primary care in the summer for discussion with the profession, medical defence organisations, the commercial industry and the NHS Litigation Authority.

To address rising indemnity costs, NHS England has already negotiated changes to the products offered by Medical Defence Organisations to bring down costs of indemnity for extended access and from December 2015 to March 2016 ran a winter indemnity scheme to offset the additional indemnity premium for GPs who wish to work additional sessions for their out-of-hours providers.

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