GP practices are under growing strain, with Sky News analysis revealing a 'vicious cycle' of workload pressures and recruitment shortfalls in England's most deprived neighbourhoods.
GP practices are under growing strain, with Sky News analysis revealing a"vicious cycle" of workload pressures and recruitment shortfalls in England's most deprived neighbourhoods.Why you can trust Sky News
The British Medical Association recommends that GPs should see no more than 25 patients per day, and describes 35 appointments as the upper limit of"safe" care. Using NHS data to adjust for these higher health needs, Sky News has found that the local GP for someone living in one of England's most deprived areas has, on average, a 61% higher patient workload than the average local GP for residents of the country's wealthiest areas.
However, increases in other practices have meant that the overall impact has been small. The gap in average patients per GP between the busiest and least-busy GP practices has fallen from 4,523 to 4,345, a decline of just 4%. A record 3,497 English GPs quit general practice in the year to March, with overall GP numbers falling by 379.During the 2019 general election campaign, the Conservative party promised they would recruit an extra 6,000 GPs by the end of 2024.
The problem for the health service is that few of those trainees are staying on to become fully qualified GPs."The government hasn't realised that what people are going to do now is get into GP recruitment schemes, get the Royal College exams from the UK and leave - because they are paying them much more abroad and they're going to welcome them with better working hours and less patients per doctor.
In March, a members' survey by the Royal College of GPs found that 30% of foreign trainees were considering not staying on as an NHS GP because of the difficulties surrounding the visa process."There's also a question of once you've got that cohort joining, how do you get them to stay?" adds Mr Palmer.
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