Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to reduce the financial burden of indemnity costs on general practice.
The Department and NHS England committed in the recently published General Practice Forward View to review the current arrangements for indemnity cover for general practitioners. To take this review forward, a General Practice Indemnity Steering Group has been established by the Department with NHS England to look at the rising cost of indemnity, and to bring forward proposals for discussion by the end of July 2016.