PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(30 June 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Integrated Care Board funding levels on GP recruitment and retention in Epsom and Ewell constituency.

Asked by:
Helen Maguire (Liberal Democrat)

We are investing an additional £889 million in GPs for 2025/26, bringing total spending on the GP Contract to £13.2 billion. This is the largest uplift to GP funding since the beginning of the five-year framework, and means we are reversing recent trends by allocating a rising share of National Health Service resources to GPs.

Under recently announced changes to the GP Contract in 2025/26, the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) will become more flexible to allow primary care networks to respond better to local workforce needs. The two ARRS pots have been combined to create a single pot for the reimbursement of patient-facing staff costs. There will be no restrictions on the number or type of staff covered, including GPs and practice nurses.

In the Epsom and Ewell constituency, as of 31 May 2025, there were 67.8 full time equivalent doctors in GPs, and since October 2024, 1,900 GPs have been recruited via the ARRS nationally.

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