Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to provide GP services with increased resources to help them meet the two week appointment guarantee.

In 2020 the Government committed at least £1.5 billion for general practice until 2023/24 to deliver an additional 50 million general practice appointments by increasing and diversifying the workforce. This is in addition to the annual increase of £4.5 billion for primary and community care announced in the NHS Long Term Plan.

In addition to ‘Our plan for patients’ set out measures to address access to general practice, allowing patients can make informed choices on where and when they receive care. The plan allows general practices to recruit new roles to reduce the administrative burden on general practitioners, increase available clinical time and assist practices to run more efficiently.