the conservatives have said they want to build a hundred new gp surgeries and 50 community diagnostic centres in an effort to increase appointments and reduce the pressure on a&e services. the health secretary victoria atkins said it would be funded by cutting the number of nhs managers. she outlined the policy on this morning s laura kuenssberg programme. i want and am reforming our national health service to be faster, simpler and fairer, and one of the ways we are doing this, you are right, is to build new gp practices. we also want to ensure that we bring health care closer into our communities. if we can have the most basic conditions treated in pharmacies, then of course that frees up gp appointment time. since the conservatives have been in charge there have been many closures of gp surgeries, there have been many closures of pharmacies. of course there would be churn around in england with a population of 55 million. a50 is a bit more than churn.
net migration is forecast to fall anyway in the next coming years what is critically important from the liberal democrats point of view is that we actually start to pay our care workers properly and that is why we are pledging to give them an increased minimum wage, £2 higher than the minimum wage for other sectors, and only by doing that, by investing in our care workers here in our domestic workforce, can we reduce the demand for foreign workers to come and fill those vacancies. the snp have accused labour and the conservatives of blaming migrants rather than the westminster government for the country s problems. and reform uk have proposed a tax on businesses employing overseas workers. labour intend this announcement to firmly park their tanks on the conservatives lawn. with legal migration numbers sky high, it is set to be a key issue in this campaign. ione wells, bbc news. the conservatives have said they want to build 100 new gp surgeries and 50 community diagnostic centres
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