Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100028

Care Workers: General Practitioners

Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal DemocratEpsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a mandatory care marker for care workers on their GP record.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The Department has not undertaken a formal assessment of introducing a mandatory care marker for those employed as care workers on general practice records. Any request for new coding would need to consider the purpose and proportionality of the introduct...

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