The organisation in charge of allocating resources to GP practices and clinics in Harrow could face a £116million deficit in three years.

Harrow West MP Gareth Thomas has asked the Government to take urgent action to help Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) out of its spiralling debt.

He said the group gets the lowest amount of funding per head of any other group across London and needs more help from the health secretary to tackle its cash crisis.

Mr Thomas said: "There is no rational reason why Harrow should get less health funding per resident than every other part of London, yet this has been the case since David Cameron’s top-down re-organisation of the NHS in 2012.

"The financial crisis facing Harrow CCG demonstrates why the Government must take urgent action to ensure that Harrow receives its fair share of funding for health services.

"Northwick Park’s A&E department continues to have some of the longest waiting times in the country. Urgent action, coupled with extra funding, is needed by ministers to help Harrow CCG avoid further cuts in services at Northwick Park and other health services in Harrow.

"Instead of providing proper funding for the NHS in Harrow, David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt seem more interested in picking fights with our hardworking doctors and nurses."

Mr Thomas asked the health secretary what he is doing to help Harrow CCG, which is responsible for funding and allocating resources for primary healthcare services in Harrow, such as GP practices and walk-in clinics, avoid its projected deficit of £116.4million in 2018/19.

The MP said the group's three year recovery plan, which sets out how the CCG will deal with historical deficits and projects its future financial position, shows that if the CCG is required to repay prior year deficits and does not receive additional funding it is projected to have a deficit of £80.8million by 2018/19.

But this figure is dependent on the CCG achieving efficiency savings of four per cent.

Harrow CCG achieved efficiency savings of two-and-a-half per cent in 2012/13 and three per cent in 2013/14.

The group will fall into a debt of £116.4million if efficiency savings of three per cent continue to be achieved.

In response to Mr Thomas' question, Alistair Burt, minister of state for the Department of Health, said: "The joint financial strategy agreed with the seven other CCGs in north-west London, combined with higher than average growth in allocations and delivery of its Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention programme, has enabled Harrow CCG to improve its financial performance.

"As a result of which it is now reporting a surplus of £2million for 2015/16.

"For 2014/15, Harrow CCG received one of the highest funding increases in the country, amounting to 4.2 per cent on the previous year.

"For 2015/16, the CCG received another above average increase in allocation and will receive a funding increase of six per cent in 2016/17, compared to an average CCG growth figure in London of 3.6 per cent."