Question follow-through · 40870
General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of regional inequalities of access to GP appointments.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of regional inequalities of access to GP appointments.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
We are committed to improving capacity and access to local services across the country. Integrated care boards (ICBs) and general practices (GPs) have a statutory duty to ensure sufficient provision of medical services, tailored to the needs of their loca...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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