NHS: GP Salaries Debate

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Lord Laming

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NHS: GP Salaries

Lord Laming Excerpts
Monday 26th January 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Jolly Portrait Baroness Jolly
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I suspect that the French GPs do not have such a competent union.

Lord Laming Portrait Lord Laming (CB)
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Does the Minister agree that sooner or later we will have to tackle the issue of developing a comprehensive primary care service in this country that operates for 24 hours, around the clock and seven days a week, which is a much bigger issue than GP salaries?

Baroness Jolly Portrait Baroness Jolly
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Community and primary services are being looked at in the round by NHS England with a view to seeing what changes need to be implemented to effect, I guess, the way in which we work in modern times.