Question follow-through · 95299
General Practitioners: Bristol North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve recruitment and retention of general practitioners in Bristol North East.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve recruitment and retention of general practitioners in Bristol North East.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
Since October 2024 we have funded primary care networks with an additional £160 million to recruit recently qualified general practitioners (GPs) through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS). In the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucester...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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