GP who confronted Rishi Sunak received “hundreds” of supportive messages from doctors

The locum GP Jane Lees-Millais has told The BMJ that she has received “literally hundreds of messages of support” from fellow GPs since she confronted the prime minister about the state of the NHS during a live televised campaign speech earlier this month.As Rishi Sunak told Tory members in Wiltshire on 7 June that the UK was “on the right track” with 4000 new doctors coming into the health service, Lees-Millais shouted out, “But the NHS is disintegrating. I’m one of 2500 GPs in this country who are currently unemployed due to your policies. What are you going to do about that?”Lees-Millais added that “37 000 GPs will not vote Conservative because of the constructive dismissal of general practice due to your policies.”Lees-Millais had been invited to meet a “senior cabinet minister” by Conservative Central Office at the meeting at Melksham Town Football Club in Wiltshire earlier that morning. “I…
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