Scott Wilkes: Sunderland's got talent

The son of a Northumberland fruit seller, he aims to make the new medical school a source of opportunity for many young people who lack the social advantages that often ease entry into medicine. Halt the “Doctor First” telephone triage system: it reduces face-to-face consulting capacity. Junior hospital doctors have low salaries for a long time before becoming consultants; salaried GPs earn significantly less than GP principals; and GP principals are diminishing because of the administrative burden and relatively low remuneration compared with their senior hospital counterparts.