Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 119475

General Practitioners: Contracts

Tabled: 10 March 2026

Answered: 16 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Dr Luke Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ask NHS England to set out the definition of ‘clinically urgent’ for patients who need to be dealt with on the same day in the context of the the GP contract 2026/27.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

As part of the 2026/27 GP Contract, we are amending the core contract to explicitly require that requests identified as clinically urgent must be dealt with on the same day. It is for practices to use their clinical judgement to determine which requests a...

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