GPs set for cash boost to see more patients

MORE than 1,000 GP surgeries will benefit from Government funding to expand and modernise buildings, to make it easier to see more patients.

- CAITLIN DOHERTY

Around £102 million has been committed to help GPs upgrade and create additional space to treat patients, according to the Department of Health and Social Care, which they say makes it the biggest public investment in facilities for five years.

The first projects are expected to begin in summer 2025 and form a part of the Government's wider plans to improve the NHS.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said that fixing the service will be "a long road, but this Government is putting in the work".

"These are simple fixes for our GP surgeries, but for too long they were left to ruin, allowing waiting lists to build and stopping doctors treating more patients," he said.