Health Secretary Thérèse Coffey will make the pledge as she unveils her NHS plan for this winter and next. Alongside same-day appointments when needed, Ms Coffey will promise no-one will have to wait more than two weeks for a routine appointment - currently one in five appointments take longer.
GPs will be able to take on extra staff, including senior nurses, while pharmacists will be asked to take on more work to free up appointments.
It comes amid declining satisfaction with access to GPs. The most recent GP survey showed just over half of patients rated their experience as good.
The promises on waiting times are not official targets, but Ms Coffey said they should be seen as clear expectations of what patients should be entitled to.
Another Tory minister who, apparently, lives in an alternate dimension, where staffing is not a problem … 
My GP is also a member of the pool that I use and we often chat when we’re having a breather at the lane end. I was teasing her about being puffed, and hoped she would be ok to see her patients, she told me then that things would not go back to the way they were Pre Pandemic. 
