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General Practitioners: Surrey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of standardising the GP appointment application process in Surrey.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of standardising the GP appointment application process in Surrey.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 7 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The GP Contract requires all practices to offer patients an assessment of need, or signposting to an appropriate service, on the day they contact the practice, or the next day if they contact the practice in the afternoon. They will not be asked to phone ...

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