Question follow-through · 116045
General Practitioners: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the need for patients to contact GP practices at 8am in order to secure a same-day appointment.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the need for patients to contact GP practices at 8am in order to secure a same-day appointment.
3 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2026
Answer published
We have pledged to end the 8:00am scramble by introducing a modern booking system. As part of this, we have introduced a new requirement for general practices to make online appointment requests available throughout the duration of core opening hours, whi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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