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General Practitioners: Recruitment

Commons · Question 87252 · Tabled 3 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 13 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Kerry McCarthy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 78048 on General Practitioners: Recruitment, whether he plans to recruit more experienced GPs whose Certificate of Completion of Training Date

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 13 Nov 2025

As self-employed contractors to the National Health Service, it is for general practices (GPs) to determine how they run their operations, including recruitment decisions.We are investing an additional £1.1 billion into GPs to reinforce the front door of ...