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<p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’, published
in February 2022, stated the ambition to reduce patient backlogs for planned National
Health Service treatments and the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from
2022/23 to 2024/25. We made £520 million available to expand general practice capacity
during the pandemic. This was in addition to at least £1.5 billion announced in 2020
by 2024 which includes supporting increased workloads in general practitioner (GP)
surgeries, including in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport. In September 2022, ‘Our plan
for patients’ announced measures to support GP practices increase access and manage
workloads, such as the provision of 31,000 phone lines and funding to expand the staff
roles working in general practice, including in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.</p>
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