Written questions

General Practitioners: Cheshire and Merseyside

Commons · Question 61490 · Tabled 20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 25 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Derek Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP vacancies there were in GP practices' in the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB as of 1 June 2025.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 25 Jun 2025

The data requested is not held centrally. The Government is committed to increasing the general practice workforce. By cutting red tape and investing more into the National Health Service, we have recruited over 1,700 general practitioners into general pr...