Question follow-through · 64762
Surgery: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current tariff for the Minor Surgery Directed Enhanced Service in the context of rising operational costs.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current tariff for the Minor Surgery Directed Enhanced Service in the context of rising operational costs.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
General practices (GPs) are paid for minor surgery directed enhanced services through global sum payments, although they have the option to opt out of these services, and if so, the relevant deductions will be made from their global sum payments.Every yea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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