Government cash boost for GP surgeries in Birmingham, Edgbaston to deliver more GP appointments
- Preet Kaur Gill MP
- 7 days ago
- 3 min read
- Labour announces 8 million new GP appointments this year, delivered through Labour’s Plan for Change
- Lordswood House Medical Centre, Bartley Green Medical Practice, Quinborne Medical Centre, and Ridgacre House Medical Centre in Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency to benefit from £102 million funding boost
- Currently GPs have capacity to take on more patients but can’t because of outdated buildings limiting working spaces
- Over 1000 GP surgeries across the country, including in Birmingham are to be supported to modernise. This is the biggest public investment in GP facilities for five years
Preet Kaur Gill, Labour MP for Birmingham, Edgbaston has today welcomed the Labour government’s announcement that patients will benefit from over 8.3 million more GP appointments each year as over a thousand doctor’s surgeries receive a bricks and mortar upgrade to modernise practices.
In Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency, four surgeries are set to benefit from the £102 million funding boost from the government - Lordswood House Medical Centre, Bartley Green Medical Practice, Quinborne Medical Centre and Ridgacre House Medical Centre.
Preet Kaur Gill MP said that residents in Birmingham, Edgbaston would soon feel the impact of an announcement that will ‘help deliver on Labour’s promise to fix the front door of the NHS’ and would be ‘music to the ears of patients who are too often stuck in the 8am scramble for a GP appointment’. She has written to the four surgeries and will be meeting with them to ensure that this investment is delivered locally.
Backed by the Labour government’s major cash injection of over £102 million, over 1000 GP surgeries will receive vital funding to create additional space to see more patients, boost productivity and improve patient care, following years of neglect.
Right now, many GP surgeries could be seeing more patients, but don’t have enough room or the right facilities to accommodate them. From creating new consultation and treatment rooms to making better use of existing space, these quick fixes will help patients across the country, including in Birmingham, Edgbaston, be seen faster.
This represents the biggest investment in GP facilities in five years and is only possible because of the difficult but necessary choices made by the government in the Budget to invest £26 billion into the NHS. And it is another measure helping the Labour government shift care out of hospital and into the community, as part of its Plan for Change.
Preet Kaur Gill, MP for Birmingham, Edgbaston said:
“Residents in Birmingham, Edgbaston tell me their frustration after enduring the dreaded ‘8am scramble’ and the difficulty that they have in getting a GP appointment. I promised Labour would help bring back the family doctor – with 1,500 new GPs recruited already, I’m delighted that our Labour Government is starting to deliver on that promise.
“But that was just the start. We said we would fix the front door of the NHS – today we’re fixing the front, the sides, the back and all the rooms in between with the biggest investment GP facilities have seen for years. A Labour government delivering on our promises for Birmingham, Edgbaston.
“I urge constituents to get in touch with me if they are struggling to get a GP appointment.”
Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting, said:
“It will be a long road, but this government is putting in the work to fix our NHS and make it fit for the future.
“These are simple fixes for our GP surgeries but for too long they were left to ruin, allowing waiting lists to build and stopping doctors treating more patients.
“It is only because of the necessary decisions we took in the Budget that we are able to invest in GP surgeries, start tackling the 8am scramble and deliver better services for patients. The extra investment and reform this government is making, as part of its Plan for Change, will transform our NHS so it can once again be there for you when you need it.”
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Notes to editors:
Projects will be delivered during the 2025-26 financial year, with the first upgrades expected to begin in summer 2025.
Preet Kaur Gill MP has written to the four surgeries that will benefit from this wave of funding. See letters attached.
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