Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Hammond and Andrew Selous

Tuesday 26th March 2019 Commons Chamber

[Stephen Hammond]

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have both had conversations with the Treasury and the Chancellor, and there are ongoing discussions.

[Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con)]

The Government have done well to get more medical students into general practice, but we are not doing quite so well at retaining GPs later on. What more can we do to make sure that GPs stay in general practice, so that more of our constituents can go and see a doctor more easily?

[Stephen Hammond]

NHS Improvement has a number of retention schemes in place, for GPs and for nurses, to look at why some people are leaving. The interim plan being developed by Baroness Harding has an employer of excellence work stream, which will report on a number of potential issues.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Hammond and Andrew Selous

Tuesday 15th January 2019 Commons Chamber

[Stephen Hammond]

The hon. Lady asks about GPs. As she would want to acknowledge, a record number of doctors are being recruited into GP training. We are determined to deliver an extra 5,000 doctors into general practice. NHS England and Health Education England have a number of schemes in place to recruit more GPs and to boost retention—the GP retention scheme and the GP retention fund—and she will know, as I have said it twice this morning, that the workforce implementation plan, which is part of the long-term plan, will be published in the spring.

[Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con)]

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