Labour and RCGP clash over call for general practice funding boost – GWC Mag

The chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has defended her plans for general practice after Labour criticised the proposals and in particular the call for a bigger share of the NHS budget and a safety alert system for overwhelmed practices.

Wes Streeting, Labour’s health secretary, wrote in the Times on 20 October that the RCGP’s plans offered solutions that were “completely counter to what GPs and patients need.” He said it was “a plan for the managed decline of general practice, not a …