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General Practitioners: Standards

Commons · Question 25477 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 27 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Chris Coghlan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of shortages of GP appointments; and what plans he has to reduce such shortages.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 27 Jan 2025

We are committed to improving capacity and access to general practice (GP) appointments. That is why, in October 2024, we provided an £82 million boost to the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme, enabling the recruitment of 1,000 newly qualified GPs acr...