Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to provide GP practices with increased funding to improve (a) spirometry testing capacity and (b) care for patients with respiratory conditions.

NHS England published its delivery plan for recovering access to primary care and is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/delivery-plan-for-recovering-access-to-primary-care-2/

The delivery plan sets out actions to make available an extra £385 million funding in 2023/24 to employ 26,000 more direct patient care staff and deliver 50 million more appointments by March 2024. Diagnosis for spirometry testing and respiratory conditions is also being incentivised within the Quality Outcomes Framework for 2023/24.