Extra funding for primary care is welcome, but isn’t enough | Letters
09-05-2025 18:22 via theguardian.com

Extra funding for primary care is welcome, but isn’t enough | Letters

It will just about cover the NIC increase – but it’s a case of government giving with one hand and taking with the other, writes one GPAs a GP, while I warmly welcome any injection of funding into primary care for all the reasons Wes Streeting has mentioned (quality of healthcare delivery, patient experience, earlier intervention reducing pressure on strained and more expensive hospital services), I question whether his recent investments will actually achieve this (Wes Str
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