Question follow-through · 25477

General Practitioners: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of shortages of GP appointments; and what plans he has to reduce such shortages.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 21 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 23 Jan 2025
Answer: 27 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of shortages of GP appointments; and what plans he has to reduce such shortages.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
We are committed to improving capacity and access to general practice (GP) appointments. That is why, in October 2024, we provided an £82 million boost to the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme, enabling the recruitment of 1,000 newly qualified GPs acr...

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