General Practitioners: Woking

Department of Health written question – answered at on 21 July 2015.

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Photo of Jonathan Lord Jonathan Lord Conservative, Woking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices in Woking constituency have received funding from the GP Access Fund.

Photo of Jonathan Lord Jonathan Lord Conservative, Woking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP appointments were available in Woking constituency in each year since 2010.

Photo of Alistair Burt Alistair Burt The Minister of State, Department of Health

There are currently no general practitioner (GP) practices in Woking receiving funding from the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (known formerly as the PM Challenge Fund).

Information on the availability of GP appointments in Woking is not collected centrally. GP practices are responsible for managing their appointments in accordance with the needs of their patients.

The Government is committed to improving access to GP and primary care services. We have invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved and innovative access to GP services. This includes longer opening hours – such as evening and weekend hours – but also different ways of accessing services, for example telephone and Skype consultations. Across two waves of the Fund, there are 57 schemes covering over 2,500 practices and 18 million patients.

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