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Jeremy Hunt was forced to defend his record in office, as a GP in the audience at the RCGP conference told him he had allowed general practice to deteriorate since he became health secretary.
The challenge from the floor came after Mr Hunt took to the stage at the RCGP annual conference in Liverpool on Thursday to make a key announcement that the government will introduce state-funded GP indemnity from April 2019.
The health secretary was challenged in a question and answer session to explain why GPs should believe promises in his speech that he would back general practice. The health secretary reasserted his goal of increasing the GP workforce by 5,000 and highlighted successive years of real-terms increases to funding devoted to general practice.
Dr Stephanie deGiorgio warned that members of the profession were ‘exhausted and drowning’ due to workload pressures. She said she had warned Mr Hunt at the RCGP conference three years ago about the pressures in general practice.
‘And it has gotten worse on your watch, as we told you it would,’ she added. ‘I ask why should we believe what you are saying today when you weren’t listening then?’
http://www.gponline.com/gps-challenge-jeremy-hunt-why-believe-you/article/1447237
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The challenge from the floor came after Mr Hunt took to the stage at the RCGP annual conference in Liverpool on Thursday to make a key announcement that the government will introduce state-funded GP indemnity from April 2019.
The health secretary was challenged in a question and answer session to explain why GPs should believe promises in his speech that he would back general practice. The health secretary reasserted his goal of increasing the GP workforce by 5,000 and highlighted successive years of real-terms increases to funding devoted to general practice.
Dr Stephanie deGiorgio warned that members of the profession were ‘exhausted and drowning’ due to workload pressures. She said she had warned Mr Hunt at the RCGP conference three years ago about the pressures in general practice.
‘And it has gotten worse on your watch, as we told you it would,’ she added. ‘I ask why should we believe what you are saying today when you weren’t listening then?’
http://www.gponline.com/gps-challenge-jeremy-hunt-why-believe-you/article/1447237
(free registration)
