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Health Services: Children

Question for Department of Health

UIN 214999, tabled on 18 November 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to introduce a named doctor or health professional for every child with a long-term condition.

Answered on

24 November 2014

We have announced that from 1 April 2015, the general practitioner (GP) contract will require GP practices to assign all registered patients, including children with long-term conditions, a named GP who will be responsible for co-ordinating their care.

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