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London’s primary care services are in a critical condition. Asking already over-burdened GPs to deliver seven days a week care, without the appropriate funding to increase the number of GPs, will exacerbate London’s spiralling NHS crisis. But on Monday...

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If the government and the NHS don’t take drastic action very quickly, the NHS could be short of almost 10,000 GPs within four years. That’s the conclusion of a study by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). This shortfall is the number it...

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Days ahead of the 2015 RCGP conference in Glasgow, GPonline met primary care minister Alistair Burt to find out what he hopes to achieve in the role and where GPs fit into the government’s NHS plans. Read an edited transcript of the interview in full...