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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted failing to prioritise building the GP workforce during his time as health secretary in a speech pledging to remove barriers to moving more NHS work into primary care.
The health secretary told the Best Practice conference in Birmingham on Thursday that he would strip out 'condition by condition' barriers and inflexibilities that have held back the transfer of work out of hospitals and into primary care.
Mr Hunt said short-term priorities often led health secretaries to ignore longer-term needs such as workforce planning, and admitted that failing to invest in GP training had now 'caught up' with him.
But the health secretary highlighted plans set out at the Tory conference last month to boost medical graduate training - saying it would be 'irresponsible' for the UK not to be self sufficient in doctors. He added that GP trainee recruitment was going well this year.
He told the conference that one thing he had not been silent on was the ‘critical importance of primary care’, and how more care should be moved out of hospitals into the community.
http://www.gponline.com/jeremy-hunt...e-four-years-health-secretary/article/1412929
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Blimey, we're going to be here all week if he's going to start admitting his failures...
The health secretary told the Best Practice conference in Birmingham on Thursday that he would strip out 'condition by condition' barriers and inflexibilities that have held back the transfer of work out of hospitals and into primary care.
Mr Hunt said short-term priorities often led health secretaries to ignore longer-term needs such as workforce planning, and admitted that failing to invest in GP training had now 'caught up' with him.
But the health secretary highlighted plans set out at the Tory conference last month to boost medical graduate training - saying it would be 'irresponsible' for the UK not to be self sufficient in doctors. He added that GP trainee recruitment was going well this year.
He told the conference that one thing he had not been silent on was the ‘critical importance of primary care’, and how more care should be moved out of hospitals into the community.
http://www.gponline.com/jeremy-hunt...e-four-years-health-secretary/article/1412929
(free registration)
Blimey, we're going to be here all week if he's going to start admitting his failures...
