Care minister Stephen Kinnock has announced a new funding boost alongside reforms to GP services which he says will "bring back the family doctor".
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00:00General practice is the front door of the NHS but after 14 years of Tory neglect
00:05and failure the front door is broken. The package of £889 million
00:10of investment that we're bringing forward today is really going to
00:14help to fix that front door but investment always has to come with
00:18reform. So the negotiations that we'll be launching with the BMA will be based on
00:23busting all the bureaucracy and the red tape that they have to deal with. There'll
00:27be a patient's charter so patients know what they can expect from the practice
00:31that they're registered with. There's going to be much better online access
00:36and we're going to bring back the family doctor. We're going to incentivise
00:39surgeries to ensure that people are seeing the same doctor because that's
00:43what gets much better outcomes for them. These are things that the BMA wants to
00:47see but our plan for change is not just going to be about those first steps it's
00:52also about introducing more radical reform next year where we're going to
00:56create a neighbourhood health service that's going to be about the three
00:59shifts from analogue to digital, from sickness to prevention and from hospital
01:05to community. So this is just the start of a radical reform and reshaping of the
01:09way that general practice works in our country.