Rise of the 'super-size' GP surgery as quarter of practices now deal with more than 10,000 patients New figures reveal the rise of the “supersize” GP surgery, amid the closure of almost 700 practices in five years.
Family doctors said they were being forced to handle far more cases than they could cope with, with one in four practices now seeing more than 10,000 patients.
The proportion of surgeries with such list sizes has risen by 27 per cent since 2013, the NHS data shows.
It follows admissions from the Health Secretary that the traditional family doctor role has been eroded by decades of underfunding. The Daily Telegraph
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