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Representation ID: 11065

Received: 18/08/2021

Respondent: Klair Norton

No one seems to think that if you build more homes, these will need to be a LOT more doctors and dentists as well!
In recent years in Brierley Hill/Stourbridge area, so many GP surgeries have closed and not been replaced. In Stourbridge there are only two GP practices and it is impossible to get appointments. Everyone I know discusses endlessly how scary it is that we do not really have medical care unless we go to the A&E walk-in centre, because even getting through to our GP on the daytime enquiries line can take longer than an hour and at the end of it you are no closer to getting any advice or help. Recent housing development on the old Longlands School site and along the river stour in Wollaston, have added and will be adding more and more to the close to 30,000 patients registered at Lion Health - how can they expect to be able to tend that number of patients?!

There should be some rule about how many GPs you have to have per head of the population to avoid this ridiculous situation! It is NO GOOD simply building more and more homes without having doctors who can serve them.