The Government promises to provide a ‘new deal’ for general practitioners (GPs) and recruit 5,000 new GPs including a review of the GP contract.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said that a ‘seven day’ working National Health Service (NHS) will be implemented with the aim to provide better services and save lives of the patients.

He added that the new deal for GPs will include more investment, training and personal link with patients giving access to new drugs and treatments. And, he concluded that GPS are very vital and without them, there is no future for NHS.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said more details about the deal would be declared next month.

The deal will involve different shift patterns which will help to relieve the workload burden on existing GPs and handle the problems. On the other hand, there are certain risks involved with this deal as the seven day access can create expectations on the patients that the general practitioners cannot currently meet. It is because today hospitals are already experiencing shortage of the medical professionals in some fields.

The sole aim of the deal is to let the people have access to the free service anytime whenever they need. So, if it works out, 18 million patients will have access to GPs everyday by the end of the financial year.

There is also an accusation made by the people surrounding the Prime Minister that NHS is not safe in his hands. Regardless of such accusation, whether the Prime Minister will be successful or not on his promised deal, only time will tell. However, the deal is directly related to the healthcare of the people, hope it does work out.

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