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Extra GP capacity won’t fix social care problems Reference the story headlined ‘Plans submitted for new high-spec health centre’ (Newbury Weekly News, June 6). Of course we need more GP capacity for an area that is going to have a large increase in patients due to the proposals in the new Local Plan Review. However there are dire shortages in social care that currently cannot be delivered with quality by your GP or the local NHS at the community hospital or adult social care. So let’s have a clear picture painted of what services it will actually deliver then we can see if any of the current g…

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