General Practitioners

(asked on 11th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to give a legal right to patients to request a face-to-face appointment with their GP.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 17th January 2022

We have no current plans to do so. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s guidance states that patients’ input into choices on appointment mode should be sought. Practices should respect preferences for face-to-face care unless there are good clinical reasons to the contrary.

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