Election day minus 24 and counting

Another beautiful day, and we were out campaigning in Bransty ward and Hillcrest.

Meanwhile 23 more business leaders have added their names to the list of signatories backing our plans to stop Labour’s job tax.

This brings to 104 the number of business leaders who have now said they “welcome George Osborne’s plan to stop Labour’s increase in national insurance by cutting Government waste”, and that “stopping the national insurance rise will protect jobs and support the recovery.”

In total the business leaders backing the Tory plans employ more than 1,000,200 people.


A Conservative government will guarantee a GP in your area from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week

At present, many people cannot see a GP when they need to because Labour took responsibility for access to primary care outside normal working hours from family doctors and gave it to bureaucrats in Primary Care Trusts.

Nearly a quarter of GP practices are now closed beyond the normal surgery hours of 8am to 6:30pm, five days a week.

A Conservative government will give people the certainty they need: our 2010 manifesto includes plans to change GPs’ contracts to ensure that everyone has access to a GP in their area from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. And responsibility for managing how patients access care outside of normal surgery opening hours will be given back to GPs.

Comments

Anonymous said…
"A Conservative government will guarantee a GP in your area from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week".

How big is "your area"? One GP in Copeland?
Chris Whiteside said…
We would encourage GPs to form consortia to offer this service.

In cities and large towns we would expect these consortia to cover an average of 100,000 people.

However, in highly rural areas like Cumbria we would need to look at catchment areas with a smaller population, because otherwise the journey to reach a GP on duty at night could be unreasonably long.
Anonymous said…
So one GP for 75% of the time and possibly 60 miles away. Another great idea.
Chris Whiteside said…
I specifically said we would need to avoid that. Do keep up!

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