'Collective action really means collective failure’, Streeting tells GPs

Wes Streeting MP at RCGP conference/ live feed screenshot

By Sarah Lowden

GPs in England have been urged by the health secretary to “stand down collective action” and instead work with the new government to “fix the NHS”.

“Capping appointments now will only punish patients and make the road to recovery steeper,” Wes Streeting said in his speech at the Royal College of General Practitioners conference on Friday.