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

  1. 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

  2. 15 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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