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General Practitioners: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what reasonable adjustments are in place for people with disabilities to access GPs without going through telephone services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
2 Feb 2026
Answer
3 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what reasonable adjustments are in place for people with disabilities to access GPs without going through telephone services.

  2. 2 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    General practices (GP) are independent businesses contracted by the National Health Service to deliver essential services. As part of their contract, practices must provide online consultation tools. Online consultation tools are designed to accommodate a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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