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Derek Twigg
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(5 years, 7 months ago)
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Matt Hancock
This is an incredibly important agenda that is close to my heart. It is at the core of the prevention of ill health to ensure that we have the right primary care services. Yes, that includes more GPs, but it also includes more of the other health professionals who support them. We have 1,000 extra non-GP clinical staff already working in general practice compared with just two years ago, but there is much more to do.
Derek Twigg (Halton) (Lab)
But what is the Secretary of State doing about retaining GPs? This is a real problem, and we have seen more and more GPs taking early retirement in recent years. What is he doing specifically to support retention?
Matt Hancock
This is a core question that Baroness Dido Harding’s workforce review will be looking into, and work is going on right across government to try to fix it.