New GPs sign up to poorest areas after £20,000 incentives

New GPs sign up to poorest areas after £20,000 incentives More than 500 trainee doctors join practices in deprived communities since ‘golden hellos’ two years ago

Record numbers of GPs are working in some of England’s most deprived communities after being given £20,000 “golden hellos” to tackle the under-doctoring of poorer areas.

More than 500 trainee family doctors have begun working in places such as Hull, Blackpool and Cumbria since 2016 in a move NHS bosses hope will tackle stark health inequalities. The Guardian

See also:

• Patients blocked from leaving GP practice across whole town amid national workforce crisis The Independent
• CCG bans patients from leaving hospital-managed GP practice amid exodus Pulse