Labour ‘would tear up contract with GPs’ and make them salaried NHS staff

Streeting said he wanted to replace GP surgeries with ‘modern health centres’ with nurses and physiotherapists as well as GPs. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

Wes Streeting has said a Labour government would “tear up the contract” with GPs, and could make family doctors salaried NHS employees.

The shadow health secretary said the way GP surgeries operate financially is a “murky, opaque business”. The proposed changes would put Streeting on course for a confrontation with the British Medical Association (BMA).