Rising patient numbers threaten to overwhelm GPs
Patients are struggling to get appointments as GPs report a surge in appointments being booked. …
In many ways, this is a problem that has been building for a while. There has been a big push in recent years by the government to increase the number of GPs to keep up with rising demand, but once you exclude locums and trainees the number of permanent GPs has actually fallen by nearly 2,000 in the past few years to just under 27,000 full-time GPs.
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