Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to train more GPs in Lincolnshire.

As of 30 September 2025, there were 115 full-time equivalent general practitioners (GPs) in training grade in practices in Lincolnshire county. The Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) reports that it has a very good track record of training GPs. This includes:

• supporting the First5 group. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) supports and encourages its First5 members to shape their membership experience through the running of its First5 Community Group, which exists to ensure that newly qualified GPs, or First5s, have the opportunity to shape their experience as a First5 member of the RCGP, discuss matters relevant to the early stages of their career, and make suggestions and propose changes to improve the college's offer for newly qualified GPs;
• encouraging portfolio careers;
• delivering support with international visa applications; and
• an increase in training practices to support the expansion of training practices in Lincoln and Boston vocational training schemes.

The Lincolnshire Training Hub, working alongside the ICB’s primary care team, has developed a comprehensive recruitment and retention programme, which has delivered projects including the Future Doctor Programme, an entry level pipeline schools’ initiative across Lincolnshire.