Liberal Democrats pledge to hire 8,000 GPs if elected

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The Liberal Democrats have pledged to recruit 8,000 more GPs if elected. The party's leader Sir Ed Davey unveiled a five-year plan aimed at ensuring people can see a GP within seven days. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Liberal Democrats want many, many GPs, you're right, because people are waiting far too
00:05 long for GP appointments and the GPs are working really hard, they're just overstretched, there's
00:08 just not enough GPs. So our programme is really ambitious, we've worked it through with health
00:13 experts, it's going to cost a billion pounds a year for the next four years and we think
00:18 over the next Parliament we could deliver 8,000 more GPs so people can get an appointment
00:23 really quickly. We're going to legislate once we've done this and we've got more GPs so
00:28 that people have a right to see a GP within seven days or 24 hours if it's an emergency.
00:34 And our package of training more people, retaining more people, encouraging people back with
00:40 this commitment of £4 billion over the next Parliament, I think is a serious one. It's
00:45 way more effective and thought through than anything the Conservatives have done. The
00:49 Conservatives promised it and failed to deliver.