£40 million for GPs to keep vulnerable patients out of hospital this winter
What was announced
Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable patients will receive support from their GP this winter under £40 million programme
Key points, in the publisher's words
- Thousands of vulnerable patients will receive more proactive support from their GP this winter thanks to a £40 million government-funded programme, set out by the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary today.
- The programme will help keep people well at home and prevent avoidable hospital admissions as the government ramps up preparations to bolster the NHS for the winter pressures ahead.
- Patients with conditions like heart disease, frailty or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will get access to additional support from their GP, tailored to their needs and designed to help them avoid reaching a crisis point and needing to go to hospital.
Figures in this announcement
Each line is quoted from the original. Figures are as the publisher stated them on the day.
- “With thousands more GPs in post and millions more GP appointments this year, the £40m programme to support vulnerable patients in the community is part of our plan to help patients, improve primary care and also to support our NHS through the heavier winter months.”
- “Primary Care Networks (PCNs) will be able to receive £126 for each eligible patient supported.”
- “The extra support will be particularly targeted at patients with heart disease, frailty, emphysema and other types of COPD, and could include medication reviews, health checks and nurse-led respiratory clinics for up to 300,000 people across the country.”
- “There are now more than 2,800 additional GPs compared with July 2024, and more than 30,500 fully qualified full-time equivalent GPs are now working in general practice, the highest number in over a decade.”
- “As a result, patients are seeing improvements in GP access, with over 400 million appointments delivered over the past year, around 24 million more than in the equivalent twelve-month period in the run-up to July 2024.”
- “Patient satisfaction with ease of access to their local GP has also risen to 75.5%, up 15 percentage points from July 2024.”
Who and where
People
- Andy Burnham (MP for Makerfield (Labour (Co-op))) · more news
- Yvette Cooper (MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (Labour)) · more news
UK bodies of power
- Department of Health and Social Care (UK government department) · more news
- NHS England (executive non-departmental public body) · more news
Constituencies of the MPs named: Makerfield, Pontefract Castleford And Knottingley.
Where this sits in the 10 levels of power
Topics, as GOV.UK files them: National Health Service, Public health.
Receipt
- Original: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/40-million-for-gps-to-keep-vulnerable-patients-out-of-hospital-this-winter
- Published 2026-11-09 08:40:54 UTC
- Read by this site 2026-11-09 08:45:45 UTC from GOV.UK
- Saved copy: receipt 11022, with its SHA-256 fingerprint
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