Question follow-through · 15806
General Practitioners: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential financial and workforce impact on GP practices of the requirement to deliver same-day responses to all clinically urgent requests under the 2026/27 GP c
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential financial and workforce impact on GP practices of the requirement to deliver same-day responses to all clinically urgent requests under the 2026/27 GP c
15 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2026
Answer published
The 2026/27 GP Contract makes clear that requests identified by practices as clinically urgent should be responded to on the same day. This builds on NHS England’s Medium Term Planning Framework, which set an expectation that urgent appointments should be...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Neurodiversity
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