Labour say they will reform the primary care system to ensure patients can get GP appointments and GPs can get jobs. Shadow Health Secretary said the situation would be improved under a Labour government training up more doctors, reducing bureaucracy for GPs and increasing funding into the system.
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00:00Look, we've got a situation at the moment where we've got patients who can't get a GP
00:05and GPs who are telling us they can't find jobs.
00:08And that's why I think we've got to look at, yes, training up thousands more GPs, which
00:12a Labour government will do, yes, freeing up GP time and capacity by reducing the amount
00:18of bureaucracy and the number of measures they're accountable on.
00:22But we also need to look at the funding that's going into general practice, whether that
00:25could be made more flexible so that we can meet the demand for GPs much sooner and make
00:31sure GPs who've worked hard to qualify can find jobs.