questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of levels of access to GP appointments in influencing patients’ decisions to attend accident and emergency departments for non-emergency conditions.
answerText: National Health Service guidance is clear that patients should only attend accident and emergency (A&amp;E) for emergencies that cannot be dealt with by a patient’s general practice (GP), NHS 111, or walk-in centres.   GPs are independent contractors to t...
heading: General Practitioners