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Retirement of GPs and national GP strategy

EDM (Early Day Motion) 1082: tabled on 08 April 2025

Tabled in the 2024-25 session.

This motion has been signed by 14 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

Motion text

That this House congratulates Dr Simon Johnson-Ferguson and Dr Helen Johnson-Ferguson, of Bampton Surgery in Tiverton and Minehead, for the decades of service they have given as GPs to the people of Bampton and its environs and the NHS; wishes them both a happy, if early, retirement; notes however with concern the growing number of early retirements by NHS GPs; and calls on the Government to increase the number of full-time GPs by 8,000.