Over 12,000 residents had to wait at least four weeks for an appointment, according to data, prompting Wakefield's MP to criticize government plans to shorten wait times to see a GP.
According to NHS England data for April, 12,586 Wakefield residents waited more than 28 days to see a doctor.
There are "not enough qualified GPs," Simon Lightwood of Labour told lawmakers.
Neil O'Brien, the minister of health, stated that there are now nearly 2,000 more primary care physicians than in 2019.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, more than 1 point 25 million people in England had to wait more than 28 days for an appointment in April, according to NHS data.
According to the government's "access recovery plan," pharmacies will relieve some of the pressure on general practitioners.
"In Wakefield, I'm pleased that our campaign to save our city center walk-in service has been successful," Mr. Lightwood said in a speech to the legislature.
The most recent NHS statistics indicate that 12,586 people waited more than 28 days for a GP appointment in April, and people continue to struggle to get one every day.
Simply put, there aren't enough GPs with all the necessary training.
"Labour has a workforce plan that is costed and ambitious.
The delayed and fully funded workforce plan of the government is where?
The opposition might not want to hear it, but we have increased general practice funding by a fifth in real terms, Mr. O'Brien said. .
"We now have more clinicians overall, including doctors. Every month, general practitioners schedule 10% more appointments. .
"We only want to keep improving upon this, which is why we have the primary care recovery plan and why we've invested an additional £645 million in enabling people to receive treatment in their pharmacies, freeing up ten million more GP appointments. .
"We are moving forward, but we still have a long way to go. ".
The access recovery plan is "not the silver bullet that we desperately need," according to Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of GPs, who also asserts that thousands more GPs are required to address the crisis.
The Access Recovery Plan, according to Mr. Lightwood, "is all talk and is just another sticking plaster policy from this government. ".
"Labour has a properly budgeted long-term plan to increase hiring and build the capacity in the NHS that the country sorely needs,"
