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General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to GP surgeries in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset and (c) England.

answeredAdam DanceDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
16 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 5 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to GP surgeries in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset and (c) England.

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    We recently announced schemes which will benefit from the £102 million Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund (PCUMF), to deliver upgrades this financial year to more than a thousand general practice surgeries across England. These schemes will c...

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