Streeting Calls for End of Industrial Action by GPs

Published on October 4, 2024

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged GPs to abandon their ongoing collective action, saying that it will “only punish patients.” Delivering a speech to doctors at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference on Friday, Streeting said that he understood the rising pressures surgeries were experiencing amid declining resources and a worsening service for patients, but that family doctors needed to work with the new Labour government to fix the NHS. Streeting said: “I understand how bad things are and that I am determined to fix them, but I cannot do this alone. We can only do this together. So I am asking GPs to stand down collective action and instead work with this new government that is serious about working with you to rebuild our NHS together.”...

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