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<id>18898</id>
<session>2000-01</session>
<number>578</number>
<title>General Practitioners</title>
<proposer id="10599">Jenny Tonge</proposer>
<date>2001-04-10</date>
<text>That this House notes with concern the recent survey of 4,000 GPs conducted by General Practitioner newspaper highlighting that family doctors are threatening to take industrial action due to the rapidly growing crisis in general practice; and calls upon the Government to address the problems of recruitment, rising patient expectation and violence in the surgery.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10599">Jenny Tonge</mp>
		<date>2001-04-10</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Richmond Park</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10515">Andrew Rowe</mp>
		<date>2001-04-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Faversham &amp; Mid Kent</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10261">Evan Harris</mp>
		<date>2001-04-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Oxford West &amp; Abingdon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10407">Alice Mahon</mp>
		<date>2001-04-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Halifax</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10578">Andrew Stunell</mp>
		<date>2001-04-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hazel Grove</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10129">Frank Cook</mp>
		<date>2001-04-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>2001-04-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock &amp; Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10502">David Rendel</mp>
		<date>2001-05-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newbury</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10064">Peter Brand</mp>
		<date>2001-05-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Isle of Wight</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10024">Jackie Ballard</mp>
		<date>2001-05-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Taunton</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10021">John Austin</mp>
		<date>2001-05-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erith &amp; Thamesmead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
