Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to the Royal College of General Practitioners’ findings on the shortage of GPs and over 500 surgeries at risk of closure, said:
 
“This dose of reality from the Royal College of GPs completely undermines David Cameron’s Party Conference rhetoric.

"The truth is that this Prime Minister has presided over a crisis in general practice and collapse in GP morale. 

"People are already struggling to get GP appointments and these figures suggest things are about to get even worse, not better, if hundreds of surgeries close for good. 

"This is a problem of the Prime Minister's own making and he must urgently produce a convincing plan to sort it out. Unfunded, unrealistic Party Conference promises are not good enough. Patients must not be left travelling miles to see their GP or waiting weeks for an appointment.
 
"Labour’s pledged an extra £2.5 billion for the NHS - on top of the Tory plans - to pay for 8,000 more GPs and to guarantee appointments within 48 hours. David Cameron has failed to match this investment.”