Question follow-through · 12831
General Practitioners: Essex
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of GPs in Essex.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of GPs in Essex.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
We have committed to training thousands more general practitioners (GPs) across the country, including in Essex, which will increase capacity and take pressure off those currently working in the system. NHS England is working to address training bottlenec...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve (a) cardiopulmonary resuscitation and (b) automated external defibrillator training for the public (i) in residential areas and (ii) generally.
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Defibrillators
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3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the number of (a) adverse events and (b) rare side effects reported after receiving a covid-19 vaccine.
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