An NHS organisation is urging for voters to join calls for new policies to support stretched GP surgeries. The patients’ participation groups (PPGs) for the Malling Primary Care Group, which cares for 60,000 people in the region, has previously warned of “a serious threat of overload” to its surgeries due to new care homes planned for Kings Hill and West Malling. It is worried about the strains the facilities will place on doctors’ time and their ability to care for residents already on their books, and wants to see a shake-up in planning policy to solve such problems. The group’s chairman, Bo…