Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of new doctors who choose to specialise as community GPs.

Health Education England’s (HEE) ‘Choose GP’ campaign promotes the benefits and opportunities of a career as a general practitioner (GP). It is aimed at foundation-year doctors considering specialty training options or a change in career path who wish to train as a GP. In addition, HEE continues to work with medical schools to enhance the profile of GPs. We have increased the number of GP training places with 4,000 trainees accepting a place in 2021/2022, an increase from 2,671 trainees in 2014.