Patients removal from the GP practice list

Husain Akhtar made this Freedom of Information request to NHS England This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Dear NHS England,

Information specific to England for the period 01.01.2016 to 01.01.2018
How many GPs have applied to the NHS board for patient removal from their practice list (a) for violent, or threatening to be violent, towards a GP or practice staff reasons (b) and for other reasons.
How many of these were actually removed from the GP practice list – figures both for (a) and (b).
We would appreciate if the data are on the regional basis, including London.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Pravin Shah
Coordinator
Harrow Monitoring Group

FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

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FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

Dear Mr Akhtar,

 

We are writing with regard to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request
dated 13 March 2018.

 

Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
NHS England is not in a position to respond to your request at this time.
We are still in the process of assessing your request and will provide you
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Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

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NHS England

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Dear FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND),

Hope I would get the requested information soon!

Yours sincerely,

Husain Akhtar

FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

Dear Mr Akhtar,

 

Re: Freedom of Information Request (Our reference FOI-055931)

 

We are writing with regard to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request
dated 13 March 2018.

 

Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
NHS England is not in a position to respond to your request at this time.
We are still in the process of assessing your request and will provide you
with a full response as soon as possible. We will write to provide a
further update on or before 11 May 2018, if your response is not complete
by this time.

 

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you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can be contacted
at:-

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office

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Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a
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Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

 

NHS England

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Dear FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND),

Ref: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

The response to my request is long overdue. I understand that, by law, under all circumstances, the authority should have responded by now.

Yours sincerely,

Husain Akhtar

FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

Dear Mr Akhtar,

 

Thank you for your communication dated 15 May 20148 in relation to your
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Yours sincerely,

 

 

Freedom of Information

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WILKINS, Chloe (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

Dear Mr Akhtar,

 

Re: Freedom of Information Request (Our reference FOI-055931)

 

We are writing with regard to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request
dated 13 March 2018.

 

Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
NHS England is not in a position to respond to your request at this time.
We are still in the process of assessing your request and will provide you
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by this time.

 

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you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
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at:-

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

 

NHS England

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B97 9PT

 

Tel: 0300 311 22 33

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‘High quality care for all, now and for future generations’

 

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FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

Dear Dr. Shah,

 

Re:      Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI-055931)

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 13 March
2018.

 

Your exact request was:-

 

“Information specific to England for the period 01.01.2016 to 01.01.2018
How many GPs have applied to the NHS board for patient removal from their
practice list (a) for violent, or threatening to be violent, towards a GP
or practice staff reasons (b) and for other reasons.

How many of these were actually removed from the GP practice list –
figures both for (a) and (b).

We would appreciate if the data are on the regional basis, including
London.”

 

NHS England holds some of this information.

 

Between 1 June 2016 and up to and including 31 December 2017: there were,
3,307 “Immediate” (inside 24 hours of notification) removals under
Regulation 3 (Violent Behaviour by a Patient); 19,131 “8 Day” removals
under Regulation 6 (Breakdown of Relationship with Patient); 354, 843 “Out
of Area” removals under Regulation 57 (Patient has left the practice
catchment area).

 

Requests for removal of patients from the list at the request of the
contractor are made under The National Health Service (General Medical
Services Contracts) Regulations 2015, Schedule 3, Part 1, paragraphs, 24,
25 and 26.

 

Of the patients removed under Regulation 3, 1,826 patients have been
allocated to a Special Allocation Scheme (SAS) by Primary Care Support
England (PCSE) since April 2016.

 

(note: Deductions from a GP Practice list due to violence and aggression
(and therefore allocation to a SAS) are governed by the GMS and PMS
Consolidated Regulations (2015).

 

For clarification this is both the number of requests and also how many
requests were actioned. NHS England does not refuse to remove anyone from
a practice list, we simply process the request. Please also note that NHS
England does not hold this data by region but as a central total for all
requests in England.

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

 

NHS England

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B97 9PT

 

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