Question follow-through · 33570

General Practitioners: Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the number of registered GPs not in employment; and whether he is taking steps to reduce the number of unemployed GPs.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 25 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 3 Mar 2025
Answer: 11 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the number of registered GPs not in employment; and whether he is taking steps to reduce the number of unemployed GPs.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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11 Mar 2025
Answer published
We hugely value the critical role that general practitioners (GPs) play and are determined to address the issues they face by shifting the focus of the National Health Service beyond hospitals and into the community. The Government committed to recruiting...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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