General Practitioners

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 8 May 2018.

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Photo of Edward Leigh Edward Leigh Conservative, Gainsborough

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of GPs.

Photo of Steve Brine Steve Brine The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

The National Health Service needs at least 5,000 more general practitioners and is working hard to recruit them. New medical schools have been set up in Sunderland, Lancashire,Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. We have also increased the numbers entering general practice training to 3,250 places each year and Health Education England reported the highest ever number of doctors entering general practice training in 2017.

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