Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to support GP services in the East Midlands.

As part of the General Practice Forward View, NHS England North Midlands has been allocated £510,000 in the 2018/19 General Practice Resilience programme. This funding is designed to support practices to become more resilient providers by delivering services at larger scale.

NHS England North Midlands has also been allocated £640,136 in 2018/19 to support reception and clerical staff training. NHS England has made available to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) their share of this allocation.

£10.7 million has also been allocated to NHS England North Midlands in 2018/19 to support the Estates and Technology Transformation programme. CCGs have been invited to bid for this funding to support their practices.

There are also a number of local initiatives in Mansfield and Ashfield CCG to support general practitioners (GPs). This includes funding protected learning for both clinical and non-clinical members of staff, funding for locality meetings for knowledge sharing, and co-ordinating IT infrastructure and technology investment including role out of mobile working infrastructure and Wi-Fi in GP practices.