{"id":14577,"date":"2013-06-05T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d1a8856e208435121416a373ccd4a6a9"},"modified":"2013-06-05T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:03:00","slug":"news-story-health-minister-anna-soubry-on-female-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=14577","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Health Minister Anna Soubry on female GPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I fully support women GPs, my comments were not intended to be derogatory and I was responding to a point made by another MP during the debate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">As the head of the RCGP also recently pointed out &#8211; some female GPs work part time due to families. The solution is that we need to increase the number of GPs and we are doing that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This government supports good working practices such as flexible working, job sharing and part-time working which help retain female doctors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anna Soubry paid tribute to GPs in her <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/publications\/hansard\/commons\/todays-commons-debates\/read\/unknown\/190\/\">speech<\/a>, saying <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I pay tribute to all GPs. There are huge difficulties with the GP contract, which was introduced in, I think, 2004. The consequences have included the loss of the sort of out-of-hours service that I enjoyed as a child, teenager and young woman. With few exceptions, we have wonderful general practitioners, and many whom I know, including my own, and others who are friends of mine, work long, difficult hours. It is important to make that point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To clarify discussion on female GPs in a recent parliamentary debate, Health Minister Anna Soubry said:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14595,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions\/14595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}