{"value":{"id":1283545,"askingMemberId":4638,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-02-03T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-02-08T00:00:00","uin":"148889","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2021 to Question 140238 on General Practitioners: Coronavirus, what steps he plans to take to reduce GP phone reception waiting times.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4380,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-04-27T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that they have no plans to collect data on general practitioner phone capacity. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with a number of areas to test advanced telephony requirements and/or specifications, which will improve telephone capacity. NHS England and NHS Improvement intend to share learning from these areas to support practices across the country to improve telephony.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"General Practitioners: Telephone Services","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1283545","method":"GET"}]}