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1503395

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what short and long term steps the Government is taking to increase the availability of GP appointments.
tabling member constituency	Ilford South
tabling member printed	Sam Tarry
uin	45053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>Excluding COVID-19 vaccinations, there were an average of 1.24 million appointments per working day in July 2022, compared to 1.17 million in July 2019. We have also made £520 million available to improve access and expand general practice capacity during the pandemic. To reduce unnecessary bureaucracy for general practitioners (GPs) and increase capacity for appointments, we have expanded the range of healthcare professionals who can sign fit notes and published seven principles to reduce unnecessary burdens on GPs.</p><p>We are investing at least £1.5 billion to create an additional 50 million general practice appointments by 2024 through increasing and diversifying the workforce. General practice teams include a range of other health professionals in addition to GPs, to respond to the needs of patients and we are on schedule to recruit an additional 26,000 primary care staff.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/09/2022 11:42:47 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4829 label Biography information for Sam Tarry

1507801

registered interest
date	22/09/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her policy that those who need an appointment with their GP practice should be seen within 2 weeks announced in Our plan for patients on 22 September, whether that two week period begins from the point at which a patient requests an appointment.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	54662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>The government has set an expectation that all patients who need an appointment within two weeks of booking will get one.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/10/2022 09:33:14 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1521478

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2022 to Question 54662 on General Practitioners: Standards, whether it is her expectation that the two week target is measured from the first time that a patient requests an appointment.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	62172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The NHS Digital General Practice Appointment Data is published monthly and measures the length of time between when an appointment is booked and when it takes place.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/10/2022 15:58:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 23212 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1662935

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Primary Care Data Gathering Programme carried out for NHS England between 2020 and 2022 relating to the condition of GP practice estates, if he will publish findings on (a) premises ownership, (b) backlog maintenance, (c) site usage, (d) age of premises, (e) EPC/DEC ratings, (f) condition of estate, (g) premises suitability, (h) decontamination and infection control compliance, (i) clinical rooms and (j) compliance with (i) statutory and contractual standards on health and safety, (ii) asbestos, (iii) the Equality Act, (iv) risk management and (v) business continuity.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	200789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The data collected through the Primary Care Data Gathering Programme will be used locally by integrated care boards to develop their Infrastructure Strategies which will be submitted to NHS England by March 2024. NHS England does not intend to publish practice-level data.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/10/2023 11:19:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1024713

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of patients waiting at least three weeks to see a GP.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	202044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensuring everyone across the country has easier and more convenient access to general practice services, including appointments in the evenings and weekends.</p><p> </p><p>The latest National Health Service planning guidance, issued by NHS England in February 2018, brought forward the deadline for clinical commissioning groups to provide extended access to general practice services to 1 October 2018, to ensure additional capacity is in place ahead of winter 2018. This includes ensuring that access is available during peak times of demand, including bank holidays and across the Easter, Christmas and New Year periods.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>The number of doctors entering GP speciality training has been increasing year on year, this year HEE recruited the highest number of GP trainees ever - 3,473 GP trainees against a target of 3,250, a 10% increase on last year.</p><p> </p><p>Greater skill mix is also key to releasing capacity in general practice, we have committed to investment in the multidisciplinary workforce in general practice. As of June 2018, there were</p><p>over 3,300 additional clinical staff, excluding GPs, working in general practice since 2015; consisting of over 500 more nurses and 2,800 more other direct patient care.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/12/2018 17:06:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1045626

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for GP appointments.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	210611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensuring that everyone can see their general practitioner (GP) at a convenient time by increasing the availability of routine appointments in general practice in the evening and at the weekend.</p><p> </p><p>By March 2019, all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) should provide extended access to general practice for the whole of their registered population (subject to local demand). This includes ensuring that access is available during peak times of demand, including bank holidays and across the Easter, Christmas and New Year periods. ‘Refreshing NHS plans’, published by NHS England in February 2018, included the deliverable for CCGs to provide extended access to GP services for 100% of their population by October 2018. This was to ensure additional capacity was in place ahead of winter 2018.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the GP workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>The number of doctors entering GP speciality training has been increasing year on year. This year, HEE recruited the highest number of GP trainees ever - 3,473 GP trainees against a target of 3,250, a 10% increase on last year.</p><p> </p><p>Greater skill mix is also key to releasing capacity in general practice. We have committed to investment in the multidisciplinary workforce in general practice. As of September 2018, there were over 3,700 additional clinical staff, excluding GPs, working in general practice compared to 2015; consisting of over 600 more nurses and 3,000 more other direct patient care staff.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/01/2019 17:30:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1082728

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a GP appointment in (a) Yorkshire and (b) England in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	229102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital started publishing monthly data on appointments in general practice in December 2018. Data is currently available between November 2017 and January 2019. A table showing the time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment (in days) for England and NHS North (Yorkshire and Humber) is attached. There are seasonal variations in the general practitioner appointment data therefore the most recent month for which data is available (January 2019) is presented as well as a 12-month average. NHS Digital’s data on ‘time from booking to appointment’ does not take into consideration that many patients will be appropriately booking ahead as part of the continuity of care they receive for long-term conditions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/03/2019 14:12:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ229102 table wait times format.docx title PQ229102 attached data
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

922444

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a patient to receive a GP appointment in (a) England, (b) County Durham and (c) Easington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	152733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time for a general practitioner (GP) appointment is not collected or held centrally. In the 2017 GP patient survey 70.8% of respondents (who could remember whether or not they were able to get an appointment, and when they wanted the appointment) stated they saw or spoke to someone at a time they wanted to or sooner. NHS England is working with NHS Digital to consider ways of improving the availability and quality of GP data, including waiting times data.</p><p> </p><p>The Department currently has no plans to introduce a maximum waiting time. However, efforts are being made to ensure everyone has easier and more convenient access to GP services, including appointments at evenings and weekends. The latest National Health Service planning guidance, published by NHS England in February 2018, confirmed that more than half the country is now benefitting from improved access, including access to pre-bookable and same day appointments on weekday evenings and at weekends, and these will be available across the whole country by October this year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 152734 question first answered 15/06/2018 14:57:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

922446

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if will he introduce a maximum waiting time target for patients to receive a GP appointment.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	152734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time for a general practitioner (GP) appointment is not collected or held centrally. In the 2017 GP patient survey 70.8% of respondents (who could remember whether or not they were able to get an appointment, and when they wanted the appointment) stated they saw or spoke to someone at a time they wanted to or sooner. NHS England is working with NHS Digital to consider ways of improving the availability and quality of GP data, including waiting times data.</p><p> </p><p>The Department currently has no plans to introduce a maximum waiting time. However, efforts are being made to ensure everyone has easier and more convenient access to GP services, including appointments at evenings and weekends. The latest National Health Service planning guidance, published by NHS England in February 2018, confirmed that more than half the country is now benefitting from improved access, including access to pre-bookable and same day appointments on weekday evenings and at weekends, and these will be available across the whole country by October this year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 152733 question first answered 15/06/2018 14:57:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

945559

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what target his Department has set for receiving a GP appointment; and what the average waiting time is for a GP appointment in (a) England and (b) Gloucestershire in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	166485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time for a general practitioner (GP) appointment is not collected or held centrally. In the 2017 GP patient survey 70.8% of respondents (who could remember whether or not they were able to get an appointment, and when they wanted the appointment) stated they saw or spoke to someone at a time they wanted to or sooner. NHS England is working with NHS Digital to consider ways of improving the availability and quality of GP data, including waiting times data.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/07/2018 15:47:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham