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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 10 June 2014.

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Photo of Andy Burnham Andy Burnham Shadow Secretary of State for Health 11:30, 10 June 2014

People ringing their surgery this morning only to be told that no appointments are available for days will be listening to the Secretary of State’s answers today and thinking that he is living in a different world. People’s real experience is that it is getting harder and harder to get a GP appointment under this Government, but for some it could get much worse. I recently visited a practice in east London that faces closure in October because of this Health Secretary’s changes to GP funding. NHS England says that 97 other practices are in the same position, affecting thousands of patients. Will he today give a guarantee that no practice will have to close?