Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any of the pilots under the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund are offering patients GP appointments within 48 hours.

General practitioner (GP) practices that have pilot schemes under the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund offer a range of urgent and routine appointments.

In September 2014, a second wave of £100 million was announced for further pilots under the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund. These pilots have the minimum requirement that they must be open from 8am to 8pm on weekdays (or equivalent) and offer improved access at weekends. Other ways of improving access to GP services under these pilots include extended access and more flexible ways to access GP appointments.