Wednesday 30 May 2018

More than 1 million patients forced to get a new GP after seven-fold rise in practice closures 

More than 1 million patients forced to get a new GP after seven-fold rise in practice closures More than a million patients have been forced to get a new GP amid a seven-fold rise in practice closures, an investigation reveals.

Family doctors said elderly patients were being left to travel long distances, warning of a “timebomb” as shortages of GPs spread across the country.

Freedom of Information disclosures reveal the closure of 445 practices across the country in the last five years, including some which merged into “super surgeries”.

This included 134 closures last year - a seven-fold rise on the 18 practices which closed in 2013. The Daily Telegraph

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