Friday 29 November 2019

Number of GPs in England FALLS by more than 300 in year despite Government pledge to hire more

Number of GPs in England FALLS by more than 300 in year despite Government pledge to hire more The NHS has haemorrhaged hundreds of GPs again this year despite Government pledges to hire thousands more, figures show.

Official data up to September revealed 339 family doctors quit the heath service in the last 12 months.

And almost as many GPs left the NHS between June 2018 and June 2019 as did in the entire three years to March.

Doctors' union the British Medical Association (BMA) said falling GP numbers mean strained GPs are risking their own health to catch up with huge workloads. The Daily Mail

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