Question follow-through · 118267

General Practitioners: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in relation to the GP contract 2026/27, what framework he has put in place to help ensure that hospitals respond to Advice and Guidance requests in a timely manner.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 5 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 9 Mar 2026
Answer: 13 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline

5 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in relation to the GP contract 2026/27, what framework he has put in place to help ensure that hospitals respond to Advice and Guidance requests in a timely manner.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2026
Answer published
Advice and Guidance (A&G) is a clinical collaboration tool that supports timely specialist input and helps patients receive care in the right setting, enabling best use of clinical time.The GP Contract 2026/27 sets out that practices will be required ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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