It is unclear whether Enfield will get the number of GPs needed to meet growing demand for healthcare in the borough.

The Department of Health and Social Care would not confirm whether Enfield will get an extra 84 GPs by 2020 – despite repeated lobbying by Enfield North MP Joan Ryan.

This is the number doctors’ group The Royal College of General Practitioners claims is needed to meet demand for GP services.

Ms Ryan wrote to health secretary Matt Hancock earlier this month asking him to honour the pledge made by his predecessor, David Mowat, that the borough would get its “fair share” of GPs.

It followed news that only 78 per cent of patients rated Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group as good – below the national average of 84 per cent.

Ms Ryan said people in Enfield were facing a “year-round crisis in access to local, public health services” due to government cuts.

She added: “I have repeatedly challenged government ministers about the need for extra GPs and greater investment in our borough’s health services.

“The government must honour their promise to the people of Enfield so that our community will get the extra GPs we require to keep up with demand.”

A department of health and social care spokesperson said: “We recognise the invaluable contribution of GPs and we are determined to build a strong workforce – that’s why we are investing an extra £2.4 billion a year into general practice by 2021, with record number of doctors in training and NHS England planning to recruit an extra 2,000 overseas doctors.”

Patient satisfaction levels in Enfield have fallen over the past five years, according to the GP Patient Survey, which is published by Ipsos MORI on behalf of NHS England.

The study also showed just 60 per cent of people found it easy to get in touch with their GP’s surgery on the phone – five years ago it was 74 per cent.