General Practitioners
(asked on 12th February 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase access to GP appointments.
This question was answered on 24th February 2026
This government has invested an extra £1.6 billion into general practice since coming into office, recruited over 2000 GPs, and extended access to online services throughout core hours, delivering 6.8 million more appointments, 46,000 more benefiting your constituents in the last year. Thanks to the steps the government has taken, 75% of patients now say it is easy to contact their GP, up a sizeable 14 percentage points since July 2024, a very positive development that I’m sure the honourable lady would wish to welcome. In our manifesto we pledged to end the 8am scramble - and that is precisely what we are doing.
This government has invested an extra £1.6 billion into general practice since coming into office, recruited over 2000 GPs, and extended access to online services throughout core hours, delivering 6.8 million more appointments, 46,000 more benefiting your constituents in the last year. Thanks to the steps the government has taken, 75% of patients now say it is easy to contact their GP, up a sizeable 14 percentage points since July 2024, a very positive development that I’m sure the honourable lady would wish to welcome. In our manifesto we pledged to end the 8am scramble - and that is precisely what we are doing.