Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the contribution of GPs to the delivery of primary care.

We are hugely grateful to GPs and their teams for the role they play in delivery services to their communities. In November 2022, there were 31.3 million general practice appointments, excluding Covid-19 vaccinations, 14.4 million of which were delivered by general practitioners.

General practice teams include a range of other health professionals who are able to respond to the needs of their patients, and we are on track to recruit an additional 26,000 primary care staff.