End rules stopping thousands of doctors working in GP surgeries, says GMC chief

End rules stopping thousands of doctors working in GP surgeries, says GMC chief Exclusive: regulator warns ‘patients will suffer’ if growing group of medics in NHS restricted mainly to hospitals

Thousands of doctors are being prevented from working in overstretched GP surgeries across the UK because of unnecessary “red tape”, leaving NHS patients experiencing “unprecedented” waits for care, the head of the doctors’ regulator in the UK has said.

Charlie Massey, the chief executive of the General Medical Council, said barriers that stopped medics from being deployed to meet areas of high demand, such as in primary care, must be removed urgently if the NHS workforce crisis was to be resolved and access to care improved. The Guardian