Simply throwing money at the NHS won’t solve all its problems

Simply throwing money at the NHS won’t solve all its problems | Simon Jenkins Family doctors have been told to refuse to take on new patients as the row over face-to-face appointments escalates.

The British Medical Association wrote to GPs today claiming Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s plan to improve patient access was a ‘bully’s charter’.

The letter, from BMA GP committee chairman Dr Richard Vautrey, claimed doctors should ‘not feel pressured to return to a traditional ten-minute treadmill of face-to-face consultations’. The Guardian

See also:

• Medical union tells GPs not to take on any new patients The Daily Mail
• Extra £6bn for NHS in budget must be matched by increase in workforce, warns BMA GPonline
• Fund social care now to protect NHS, Sunak told The Independent