Would You Like To See Your GP, Or Know That The Government Is Restricting Your Access Using Cast-iron Fiscal Rules?

3rd May 2024

Richard Murphy shines a light on why we really cannot see a GP and exposes the lie of GP shortages.

One of the greatest source of disquiets about the NHS is not that there are long hospital waiting lists - although no-one is overly chuffed by that - but that people cannot get to see their GP.

The idea being put around by politicians is that there is a shortage of GPs in the UK.

The claim is being made that this requires that we train assistant practitioners - who are not, by a very long way, comprehensively medically trained - to take the place of the GPs we cannot get.

But this is not true. As the GP Online news service from the British Medical Association reported last month:

The BMA has warned that thousands of GPs are currently 'underemployed' because practices can't afford to hire them - and GPonline has reported in recent weeks on locum GPs turning to foodbanks and one GP working as an Uber driver because they were unable to find a job in general practice.

Read the full article HERE