On Monday Richard appeared on BBC Look East in a piece they produced on access to GPs in Bedfordshire, following Richard's parliamentary debate on this topic earlier this month.
Richard Fuller, MP for North East Bedfordshire, said:
During the interview, I restated that infrastructure first is critical alongside housing development to provide the access to healthcare and school places that people rightly expect when they move into a new home. Housing growth in Bedfordshire is 3-5 times the national average and this is exacerbating the long-standing shortage of GPs and doctors' premises.
I will continue to press the government to act on this and the inability of the NHS to keep pace with house building – in personnel, processes and facilities - and will be speaking to the Secretary of State for Health to push for improvements.
For more information on Richard's debate on access to GPs and primary care in North East Bedfordshire, please visit this page.
