Equitable Access to Healthcare

That the Parliament acknowledges that General Practitioners at the Deep End, a group of GPs working in the 100 most deprived communities in Scotland, recently organised a conference in Glasgow to discuss their work, with interested GPs attending from all over the UK and the Republic of Ireland; recognises the existence of the "inverse care law", which shows that those who require health services the most, including in Glasgow Shettleston, often find them hardest to access; notes the group's view that GP practices require funding and resource to be allocated based on levels of need, not simply demand, and further notes the group's view that until funding is restructured in this way, health inequalities will not only continue to exist, but likely widen.