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General Practitioners: Recruitment

Commons · Question 68288 · Tabled 15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 23 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Vikki Slade

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to reopen the New to Partnership Payment Scheme to support healthcare professionals to become GP partners.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 23 Jul 2025

The Department has no current plans to reopen the New to Partnership Payment Scheme, which was launched by NHS England and ran from July 2020 to June 2023.We recognise that fewer general practitioners (GPs) are interested in going into partnership, and th...