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Written Question
General Practitioners: Standards
Tuesday 21st October 2014

Asked by: Lord Evans of Rainow (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on improving access to GPs.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The Prime Minister’s £50 million Challenge Fund is currently improving general practitioner access for over two million patients across England. This includes offering evening and weekend appointments, as well as better use of technology, such as telehealth, to look after patients. By January, 7.5 million patients will be covered.

And, we have recently announced another £100 million of funding for next year to improve access for even more patients.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Feb 2014
NHS

"I have had reason to visit my accident and emergency four times with my young son, who is 10 years old and an enthusiastic rugby and football player. On those four occasions—for a broken nose, a damaged knee, damaged ankles and damaged elbows—we were seen within minutes for pain relief …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Nov 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"7. What steps his Department has taken to ease the short and long-term impact of winter pressures on NHS services...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Nov 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will my right hon. Friend join me in praising the outstanding work of Age UK and, in particular, Age UK Cheshire, which serves my constituency? It is raising older people’s awareness of seasonal impacts on health and offering support to prevent unnecessary pressures on the health service...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Feb 2012
NHS Risk Register

"When the right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State he refused a freedom of information request to publish risk registers in September 2009. Why was that? Was he aware of the request, and why did he not publish?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jan 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"2. What recent representations he has received on access by NHS patients to drugs invented and developed in UK laboratories; and if he will make a statement...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jan 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"What steps are being taken towards closer collaboration between the NHS, industry and our world-class universities to drive improvement and innovation in the NHS for the benefit of current and future NHS patients?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2011
Manufacturing

"Flushed with success...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2011
Manufacturing

"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman) on securing the debate. Apart from a brief spell stacking shelves in my local Co-op in Poynton, I have worked in the manufacturing industry for my entire career. Interestingly, my first manufacturing job as a young man was working …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2011
Manufacturing

"I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. At the beginning of my speech, I made the point that all Governments of all political persuasions have contributed to the overall decline. I take on board the closures in his constituency. All Governments need to learn the lessons of the past, …..."
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