GP Surgeries: Coronavirus

(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that GP surgeries are adequately insured against litigation in the event that a patient contracts covid-19 while visiting their practice.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 8th September 2020

Indemnity arrangements are in place to indemnify healthcare professionals working in general practitioner (GP) surgeries through the Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice, administered by NHS Resolution. This indemnity cover is available to GP surgery staff if they are engaged by a GP practice, the main business of which is to provide National Health Service primary medical services. This includes salaried GPs, locums, students and trainees, nurses, clinical pharmacists, agency workers and other practice staff. In addition, all GP surgeries must have their own public liability insurance policies in place as part of the day-to-day running of the practice business.

To ensure there are no gaps in indemnity coverage, the Coronavirus Act 2020 provides additional powers to provide clinical negligence indemnity arising from NHS activities related to the COVID-19 outbreak, where there is no existing indemnity arrangement in place.

Reticulating Splines