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Written Question
GP Surgeries: Closures
Thursday 25th February 2016

Asked by: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat - Sheffield, Hallam)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries have closed in (a) Sheffield, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) England in the last three years.

Answered by Alistair Burt

Comprehensive data is not held centrally. Practices may close for a variety of reasons, including mergers with neighbouring practices or the retirement of general practitioners from single-handed practices.

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