Karin Smyth

Karin Smyth

Labour — Bristol South

Speaking in the House of Commons on 16 October 2024

Debate

Access to Primary Healthcare

Contribution

I am tempted, but I know that many of the hon. Lady’s colleagues want to speak, and I am sure she is on the list. Fixing the NHS will take years of discipline and hard work, and we are in this for the long haul. However, we must first clean up the mess we inherited, and that work has begun in earnest. We have found the funding to recruit an extra 1,000 GPs this year as our first step towards fixing the NHS’s front door and making the system more flexible.

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