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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the Government plans to recruit 5,000 new GPs to help meet David Cameron's pre-election pledge to create a seven-day health service.

Dan Whitworth went to the University of Birmingham's Medical School to ask the next generation of doctors what they think of the pledge.

"They see 30 to 40 patients back to back," said Helena Boryslawskyj, 26, who doesn't want to become a GP.

"I went into medicine to give full quality care to people... I'd feel as though I'd be short changing people."

Katie Hutchinson, 23, said she wanted to be a GP because she likes the variety of patients she would see, "from babies to the elderly".

"I think a lot of medical students would be interested [in being a GP] but what puts them off is the politics and bureaucracy surrounding it," she said.

Penny Sellars, 29, who is undecided, said the advice of many current GPs was to move overseas to somewhere like Australia, rather than work in the NHS.

"I think they realise it's in a bit of a crisis at the moment," she said.

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