The National Health Service needs at least 5,000 more general practitioners and is working hard to recruit them. New medical schools have been set up in Sunderland, Lancashire,Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. We have also increased the numbers entering general practice training to 3,250 places each year and Health Education England reported the highest ever number of doctors entering general practice training in 2017.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4067", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Brine"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Winchester"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Steve Brine"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-05-08", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-05-08T16:25:52.193Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-05-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "General Practitioners"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of GPs.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/345", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Gainsborough"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Sir Edward Leigh"} ], "uin" : "905168"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/897908", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/897908/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Information on total spend on mental health services for children and young people is published in NHS England\u2019s five year forward view for mental health dashboard, available at the following link:<\/p>
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www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard<\/a><\/p> <\/p> This includes expenditure against additional funding which is not reported separately.<\/p> <\/p> Clinical commissioning groups\u2019 (CCGs) recurrent baseline allocations are uplifted annually, and this includes funding for mental health services for children and young people. NHS England tracks mental health expenditure by CCGs against the Mental Health Investment Standard, which requires an increase in spend on mental health by at least the amount of overall recurrent baseline allocations. Currently 85% of CCGs are meeting the Mental Health Investment Standard and recent NHS Planning Guidance for 2018/19 requires all CCGs to meet the standard.<\/p>"}
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