We the undersigned call on the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Victoria Atkins MP, as well as the Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting MP, and the Liberal Democrat Health, Wellbeing and Social Care Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP, to take note of the plight of the Three Shires Medical Practice, at Colerne, Marshfield, Wick and Pucklechurch, and many other GP surgeries especially in rural locations across England and ensure adequate financial provision is made for their continued operation. 

In the face of wage increases and rising costs, while cuts are being made by the Integrated Care Board (ICB) to non-statutory services such as: ECG, physio, complex leg dressings, spirometry, the situation is fast becoming untenable.

Rural GP services offer a way for residents to continue to live in the homes they love, while receiving the health care they need. Cuts to these services are counterproductive, leading to an increased need for hospitalisation, resulting in bed blocking, misery and a collapse of hospital capacity to take in patients when they most need to be cared for.