Over half of the UK's GPs would vote Conservative, the party that also planned to address drug provision

The majority of General Practitioners in the UK now favor the Conservative Party's health policy, despite opposing Tory plans to impose commissioning responsibility on the profession, according to a poll for the UK-based GP newspaper

The poll of GPs' voting intentions reveals just 15% will back Labour and only 17% prefer Labour's health policies. The survey of 314 GPs found 53% plan to vote Conservative this year, compared with just 24% in 1997. A general election is due in the UK by this summer, with May 6 mooted as the most likely date.

GPs are unhappy with many of Labour's flagship policies, with 59% condemning practice-based commissioning as a 'failure' and 78% opposed to plans to scrap practice boundaries. With the election campaign under way and focused on health, nearly 6% of GPs remain undecided as to for who they will vote. A previous GP poll found that, in 1997 the Conservatives were seen as having the worst health policy of the major parties.