Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce unnecessary administrative tasks required of GPs.

As part of the 2020/21 general practice (GP) contract, to reduce administrative tasks and to help maximise the time available for care, the Government committed to a thorough review of levels of bureaucracy in GPs. As part of this work, in August 2022, a cross-Government concordat was published agreeing to seven co-designed principles to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy in GPs. The Department is continuing to work across Government and with the National Health Service to implement the solutions that emerge.