General Practitioners: Standards

(asked on 21st May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of standard 10-minute appointments with GPs.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 4th June 2019

No specific work has been done centrally to assess the effectiveness of the standard 10 minute consultation. However, there is no contractual obligation regarding the length of appointments in general practice.

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