Question follow-through · 76149
General Practitioners: Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a target of number of registered patients per GP.
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
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a target of number of registered patients per GP.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
Each general practice is required to provide services to meet the reasonable needs of their patients. There is no NHS England recommendation for how many patients a general practitioner (GP) should have assigned, or the ratio of GPs or other practice staf...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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