As the front door to the NHS, it is general practice that is at the coalface of the devastation that poor health causes in the most deprived communities.

How it leaves children too sick for school, and adults too weak to work.

How these consequences play out over the course of a lifetime, and how they become entrenched in families generation after generation.

This is why closing the health gap between the richest and poorest is one of this government’s top priorities.

Because the fact that a child born in Blackpool will now live 10 years fewer than a child born in Hampshire is utterly shameful.

I know that the injustice of this postcode lottery piles ever increasing pressure on the GP practices already bearing the brunt of historic underinvestment.

The college’s own research last y

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