Urgent and Emergency Care

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at on 5 March 2024.

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Photo of Helen Whately Helen Whately Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to talk about the whole health system. One thing we are doing as part of our work on urgent and emergency care is preventing people from being admitted to hospital unnecessarily, or from being brought to A&E in the first place. Primary care is part of that. In our investment in expanding medical school places, we are particularly encouraging medical schools, such as the new Kent and Canterbury Medical School near me, to train students to work more outside hospitals, including in primary care.