00:00A new guarantee for our communities that can be summed up in four simple words.
00:04No doctors, no in development.
00:07What does that mean in practice?
00:09It means that the local authority and the NHS would work together
00:13to identify how much extra GP capacity is needed to serve new developments
00:19and then the required developers to pay for it through their levies.
00:25Crucially, that means funding not just the bricks and mortar of GP surgeries,
00:30but also the contracts so there are actually doctors to staff them
00:34while patients are first moving in.
00:38Because what happens right now, as we all know too well,
00:41is that GP surgeries for new developments are often promised but never delivered.
00:47That's because building the surgeries often takes too long
00:51and there's no new money to fund the GP contracts
00:54until patients have moved into an area,
00:56meaning they just can't hire the staff when the first homes are sold.
01:02So the first new residents go to oversubscribed GP practices elsewhere,
01:06meaning there's still no new money for the new surgery,
01:09meaning it simply never materialises.
01:12This is all because the government just doesn't understand how important this is,
01:18because it doesn't understand what communities really need.
01:23Our plan would end that vicious cycle.
01:26Go to the CRC.
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