Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to recruit more General Practitioners in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

We are working with NHS England to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce in England. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why doctors leave the profession, and encourage them to return to practice.

We have increased the number of GP training places, and last year saw 4,032 trainee doctors accept a place on GP training, up from 2,671 in 2014. Under the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, the number of training places will rise to 6,000 by 2031/32, with the first 500 new places available from September 2025.

The North Central London Training Hub administers local delivery of the NHS England General Practice Fellowship programme, which aims to support recruitment of newly qualified GPs into local general practices, including Hornsey Wood Green. The training hub also works with health and care partners locally to create portfolio roles to attract newly qualified GPs to take up salaried roles. These portfolio roles support wider population health needs identified within the borough.