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GP Surgeries: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review recent closures of GP surgeries.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Oct 2024
Target answer date
23 Oct 2024
Answer
24 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review recent closures of GP surgeries.

  2. 23 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The closure of a general practice (GP) surgery is an issue that is considered and decided upon by local commissioners, following an application from a GP provider. Practices close for a variety of reasons, including mergers or retirement, and so do not ne...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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