Question follow-through · 85974
General Practitioners and Hospitals: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of current NHS staffing levels in (a) hospitals and (b) general practice.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of current NHS staffing levels in (a) hospitals and (b) general practice.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
National Health Service hospitals and healthcare providers, such as general practices, are responsible for ensuring that there are sufficient staff to provide safe care for their patients.Providers already have a duty through Regulation 18 of the Health a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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