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Modernising Medical Careers

I will give way in a minute, but it is important that I make this point because it is precisely on the issue of modernising medical careers in areas that have been underfunded, traditionally and historically, and which because of that have had recruitment problems for many years. The shift in allocation is one of the bravest things that the Government have done. The 11.5 per cent. increase in PCT funding last month was the biggest in the north of England—[Interruption.] This is absolutely on the subject. The subject is how my area can recruit the consultants and the GPs that it needs, and how, in an area such as Cresswell, just outside my constituency in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), where many of my constituents worked for year upon year, the NHS had not been able to recruit GPs until last week, when a new GP practice was appointed.