questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential patient safety implications of mandating Advice and Guidance as a required step within GP referral pathways under the 2026/27 GP contract regulations.
answerText: The contract does not change the clinical threshold for referral to specialist care. General practitioners (GPs) should continue to make a clinical decision to refer for specialist care where that is in the patient’s best interests, and to request special...
heading: General Practitioners: Contracts