General Practitioners: Easington

(asked on 3rd July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to (a) reduce the number of locum doctors and (b) recruit additional permanent GPs in Easington constituency.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 6th July 2018

Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) advises that its primary care strategy outlines a general practice five point plan. This includes support for general practitioners (GPs) considering retirement to encourage them to stay in general practice longer; giving GPs the flexibility of working across many sites; incentivising GPs to work in this alternative model across several practices as opposed to being a locum; and the GP Career Start initiative aimed at attracting GPs who are looking for the opportunity to take up a post in general practice at an early point in their career and recruiting new GPs from Europe. This strategy is currently being implemented.

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