:00:09. > :00:12.A GP surgery in Bristol could close, because the doctors who run it say
:00:13. > :00:18.The two doctors who run St Martin's Surgery in Knowle say they no longer
:00:19. > :00:24.feel able to make sure their patients are properly cared for.
:00:25. > :00:28.Dr Holly Hardy feels she can't carry on.
:00:29. > :00:33.She's one of only two part`time partners at this practice in Knowle.
:00:34. > :00:36.Between them, they have 6,000 patients.
:00:37. > :00:38.With this number on the practice's books, there
:00:39. > :00:44.But they've been unable to recruit new partners and have both handed
:00:45. > :00:57.I think it was a very necessary decision to make in view of the fact
:00:58. > :01:01.that we could not recruit new doctors. We have had some really
:01:02. > :01:04.good people who are helping us out, but it reached the point where we
:01:05. > :01:08.had to make the difficult decision about whether we could maintain
:01:09. > :01:09.clinical standards and ensure patient safety in the long`term.
:01:10. > :01:12.The NHS says it will try to keep the surgery open.
:01:13. > :01:27.But that doesn't reassure the MP for the area, who is calling
:01:28. > :01:40.Inevitably, there is a danger that patients won't be up to get the
:01:41. > :01:43.access that they need. So I have asked NHS England to call an
:01:44. > :01:49.emergency meeting of all the GP practices in the area said that we
:01:50. > :01:56.can sit down and work out how we can make sure that my constituents will
:01:57. > :02:02.get access to their GPs. Local people are concerned.
:02:03. > :02:09.A lot of people use that surgery. I think it is terrible.
:02:10. > :02:13.There will be people out of a job. And the health service is stretched
:02:14. > :02:15.enough as it is, so there will be no doctors to go to.
:02:16. > :02:18.This is by no means the only surgery in the West to find GPs
:02:19. > :02:21.Only last month, Points West interviewed this family
:02:22. > :02:24.doctor who resigned from his practice in protest at what he
:02:25. > :02:31.called unrealistic work pressures caused by Government targets.
:02:32. > :02:38.I feel really upset about it, because I read want quality time
:02:39. > :02:40.with my patients. I do not want to give them more drugs in order to hit
:02:41. > :02:40.targets. A recent survey
:02:41. > :02:43.of 1400 family doctors in the West showed that four out
:02:44. > :02:57.of ten practices found it difficult It is now a waiting game for the
:02:58. > :03:02.patients to find out who their new doctor will be.
:03:03. > :03:04.GPs across the country have complained about increased workload.
:03:05. > :03:07.But I asked Dr Helen Stokes Lampard from the Royal College of GPs
:03:08. > :03:09.if quitting the profession was letting patients down.
:03:10. > :03:15.No GP would ever by choice walk away from a job they love and value
:03:16. > :03:20.This is a sign of a desperately stressed out, exhausted profession
:03:21. > :03:28.A lot of people would argue that yes, it is a very hard job,
:03:29. > :03:33.Some get paid over ?100,000, so what is the problem?
:03:34. > :03:37.Money is not a cause of all things, it is only part of it.
:03:38. > :03:42.It does not matter how much you pay people, if they cannot get through
:03:43. > :03:48.Most GPs are responsible, caring professional, and if they
:03:49. > :03:52.felt that they cannot deliver a caring, good quality service then
:03:53. > :03:56.they would rather get out of it rather than doing a bad job.
:03:57. > :03:59.So what do you expect patients to do if their surgery closes?
:04:00. > :04:02.I have no doubt that there are plans being put into place to look
:04:03. > :04:07.But there is only so far that you can stretch putting
:04:08. > :04:13.This is probably a big wake`up call to
:04:14. > :04:18.But the government did protect the NHS budget.
:04:19. > :04:23.Protecting the budget is one thing but we have
:04:24. > :04:29.an increasingly ageing population and people with lots of diseases.
:04:30. > :04:32.Also, the budget for primary care has been systematically reducing
:04:33. > :04:38.We have the lowest proportion of the NHS share that we have ever had.
:04:39. > :04:41.Our colleagues in secondary care do an amazing job, but
:04:42. > :04:45.in primary care if we get it right, we can stop patients from getting
:04:46. > :04:50.sick in the first place, they do not need to go to secondary care.
:04:51. > :04:53.So we're calling on the government to get that funding back to where
:04:54. > :05:00.Given that we are seeing so many people, 90% of the patients
:05:01. > :05:11.in the country , we think that 11% of the budget is not an unfair ask.
:05:12. > :05:14.A man's appeared in court charged with murdering a barman in Swindon.
:05:15. > :05:17.Tom Rogers was killed while cycling home from work last Thursday night.
:05:18. > :05:20.Jason Voon is accused of murdering him, as well as the
:05:21. > :05:24.Meanwhile, police in Swindon are tonight
:05:25. > :05:27.continuing to investigate Mr Rogers' death, and are in the town centre
:05:28. > :05:35.Plans were unveiled today to try to prevent the Somerset village
:05:36. > :05:37.of Muchelney being cut off by floodwater again.
:05:38. > :05:39.For two months over the winter, people living
:05:40. > :05:43.in the village could only get in or out by boat or tractor.
:05:44. > :05:46.Today, the county council put forward plans to raise one of the
:05:47. > :05:53.But the plans have received a mixed reaction.
:05:54. > :05:55.It is a sticking plaster at the moment,
:05:56. > :05:59.because I know it is a fair amount of money that is being spent, but it
:06:00. > :06:03.I've been given huge reassurance on the height to
:06:04. > :06:09.It is not a standard 60 centimetres, it will be more in some places
:06:10. > :06:13.But it will be at the maximum level of the flood.
:06:14. > :06:16.It's hoped building work will start next month, and will be finished
:06:17. > :06:34.We will have more news on the BBC website. Here is the weather.
:06:35. > :06:40.Temperatures went up to 25 Celsius in parts of Wiltshire today. It
:06:41. > :06:45.could be the same tomorrow, but there will be some cloud and breezy
:06:46. > :06:49.weather. That will bring some rain later in the afternoon and through
:06:50. > :06:53.the evening. No chance of rain tonight but temperatures will be
:06:54. > :06:59.mild, around the mid teens. Through tomorrow, you will find sunshine
:07:00. > :07:03.being squeezed to the east. The cloud will move in from the West.
:07:04. > :07:08.First there will be some rain and then some heavy rain as we get into
:07:09. > :07:13.the evening. That will spread eastwards through the evening and on
:07:14. > :07:17.Saturday morning some of that rain will be heavier. But temperatures
:07:18. > :07:23.tomorrow will probably still be in the low 20s and in Wiltshire it
:07:24. > :07:28.could be even higher than that, closer to 2425 degrees. The rain
:07:29. > :07:35.will be on Saturday, but we do not know
:07:36. > :07:41.For those of you who haven't already heard, we've recorded our highest
:07:42. > :07:47.temperature so far this year, and that was in Writtle in Essex. It
:07:48. > :07:52.looks highly likely as well that we could see temperatures of a similar
:07:53. > :07:53.value for tomorrow. Anywhere through central London to the east could