<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 15 November 2016.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 1:43, 15 November 2016

First Minister, we’ve actually seen the money going into general practice declining over the last four years—a £20 million decline over the last four years. That’s why the Royal College of General Practitioners have a campaign at the moment to increase the overall take of the NHS budget going into general practice up to 11 per cent of the budget by 2020. Can you commit to meeting that aspiration from the royal college and, indeed, will you commit to there being more general practitioners in Wales at the end of this Assembly term than there are at the moment? We understand these things do take time, but you have now four-and-a-half years left of the mandate where you can make those changes, you can make those investments that the royal college are talking about, and you can start to recruit the extra staff that are required to create that doorway into the NHS, given that the first point of contact for most people—90 per cent of people—is their general practice.