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Dear NHS England,

Radio programmes this morning discussed online and video GP consultations using a service from a company called Babylon.

The Babylon web-site offers a service called 'GP at Hand', which makes available services including video consultations to any patient living within certain postcodes, who registers with GP at Hand as their NHS GP practice. See www.gpathand.nhs.uk

Please advise the names of the GP partners and or other beneficial owners of the GP practice with which patients are registering when they use this service.

Please advise on what basis this practice will be paid when patients register with it. Will the payment for new patients be paid on the same basis as for any other APMS or GPMS practice?

Please advise how this service was commissioned.

Please provide details of any procurement which was undertaken to secure GP at hand or Babylon as a provider of this service. Alternatively, if no procurement was undertaken, please explain why one was not required.

Yours faithfully,

stuart edekof

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Dear Mr Edekof,

 

Re:     Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI-054827)

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 6 November
2017.

 

Your exact request was:

 

“Dear NHS England,

Radio programmes this morning discussed online and video GP consultations
using a service from a company called Babylon.

The Babylon web-site offers a service called 'GP at Hand', which makes
available services including video consultations to any patient living
within certain postcodes, who registers with GP at Hand as their NHS GP
practice.  See [1]www.gpathand.nhs.uk

Please advise the names of the GP partners and or other beneficial owners
of the GP practice with which patients are registering when they use this
service.

Please advise on what basis this practice will be paid when patients
register with it.  Will the payment for new patients be paid on the same
basis as for any other APMS or GPMS practice?

Please advise how this service was commissioned.

Please provide details of any procurement which was undertaken to secure
GP at hand or Babylon as a provider of this service.  Alternatively, if no
procurement was undertaken, please explain why one was not required.”

 

NHS England holds this information.

 

 

Please advise the names of the GP partners and or other beneficial owners
of the GP practice with which patients are registering when they use this
service.

The partners in the GMS contract are Dr S Jefferies, Dr M Noble, Dr M
Bhatt and Ms R Bright.  Patients are registered with one of the GP
partners.

 

Please advise on what basis this practice will be paid when patients
register with it.  Will the payment for new patients be paid on the same
basis as for any other APMS or GPMS practice?

 

Payments will be made on the same basis as all other GMS contracts. 
Practices are paid per weighted registered patient  

 

Please advise how this service was commissioned.

 

This is not separately commissioned. The practice held an existing GMS
contract and has developed this under that contract through sub-
contracting arrangements.

 

Please provide details of any procurement which was undertaken to secure
GP at hand or Babylon as a provider of this service.  Alternatively, if no
procurement was undertaken, please explain why one was not required.

 

Please see the response to the question above.  The practice initiated
this development.

 

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number and email details are as follows:- PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT;
0300 3 11 22 33, [6][NHS England request email].

   

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Tel: 0300 311 22 33

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