Asked by: Tom Tugendhat (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to parish councils in assisting doctors' surgeries to find suitable venues for general practice.
Answered by Steve Brine
General practitioners are independent contractors and therefore it is primarily for them to identify suitable premises from which to provide National Health Service primary medical services.
NHS England offers support to practices where necessary, without the need to engage parish councils.