Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to support GPs in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire to spend more time with their patients.

Both in the Hon Member’s local region, and all across the country, the Department is working closely with NHS England to drive progress on a number of the issues raised in their questions, and for many of those issues, we have published strategies that we are working towards. The Hon Member can find details of those strategies, and regular updates on our work in other areas, via the Department’s publications on the GOV.UK website.