Parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt

GPs reacted with fury today to the Tory government’s plans to name and shame surgeries that fail to provide patients with an “appropriate level of access” to care.

Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) chairman Martin Marshall described the attack on medics by some politicians and sections of the media as “abuse” that was “demoralising and indefensible.”

After also lambasting measures by Health Secretary Sajid Javid to improve services in England as insufficent, many GPs warned that they plan to leave the profession, adding to a staff exodus that is crippling the NHS and social care.