Question follow-through · 44788
Health Services: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve staffing levels at GP surgeries to ensure ring timely access to women's health services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve staffing levels at GP surgeries to ensure ring timely access to women's health services.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government committed to recruiting over 1,000 recently qualified general practitioners (GPs) through an £82 million boost to the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme over 2024/25, as part of an initiative to address GP unemployment and secure the fut...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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