From the BBC yesterday and being looked at again on breakfast TV:
GPs have voted to reduce visits to patients’ homes, saying they “no longer have the capacity” to offer them.Doctors supported the proposal at a meeting of English local medical committees in London on Friday. It means British Medical Association (BMA) representatives will lobby NHS England to stop home visits being a contractual obligation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50527179
BBC Scotland have been quiet on the topic, presumably because Scottish GPs are not threatening anything, though the Herald have managed to find a ‘campaigner’ to headline for them her own story of out-of-hours experience at one hospital. Reporting Scotland will surely pick this one up. Curiously, they seem to only have a picture of Hughes with the last Health Secretary that they and the rest of the Scottish media, fed by the opposition parties, worked so hard to force into tearful resignation at a time when, as now, NHS Scotland was performing far better than any of its neighbours.
Why are Scottish GPs not threatening to reduce home visits? Could it be because they have superior contract with the Scottish Government? See:
When the Scottish contract was first introduced in January, the BMA contrasted it very favourably with that on offer in England and Wales. The BMA told the GP’s newsletter, Pulse (‘At the heart of general practice since 1960’), that the new Scottish contract is an ‘ambitious departure’ from the rest of the UK and that it will make the profession attractive again.
Could it be because there are significantly more GPs per head of population in Scotland? See:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48191210
Analysis by Lisa Summers? I love it.
Could it be because GP vacancies in Scotland are only just over one-third of the level in England? See:
Based on a survey by the GP magazine on 6th July 2018, Pulse, the Independent reported today:
‘GP vacancies (in England) rise to record levels despite recruitment pledge, survey suggests. Long patient waits and unsafe, rushed appointments are unlikely to end any time soon as vacancies have risen from 9.1 per cent to 15.3 per cent since the (UK) government pledged 5 000 more doctors.’
In sharp contrast, the GP vacancy rate in Scotland was only 5.6%, just over one-third, at the end of 2017.
Click to access 2018-03-06-PCWS2017-Report.pdf
I could go on.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
The Sunday Herald today has produced it’s own ‘GP service bad’ story today based around one case in the GP out-of-hours service. Meltdown, crisis, winter blah blah blah.
You get the picture.
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The BBC is at the forefront of digging up and repeatedly reporting any disgruntled Unionist voter to rubbish the SNHS , aided and abetted by Labour , Tories , Lie-Dems in Scotland . They will now go on to full SNP baad mode for the remainder of the hustings, the health service will be the number one target followed by education , if they keep piling on their lies and contrived grievances when it comes to polling day the drift to other parties could be significant , job done ! .
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Meanwhile in Northern Ireland this:
NHS: Huge audit targets tens of thousands on NI waiting lists – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49974097
On Thursday or Friday last week the BBC 6 o’clock news did a piece on the situation in NHS NI. Long waiting lists, nearly 5 years for some procedures eg cataracts.
Since Stormont effectively closed 3 years ago no one in NI is in charge. Cicil servants are limited in what they can do so you have drift and ever increasing breakdown in services in the NHS in NI. Staff are now threatening to strike.
The message from this for Scotland is not that the Scottish NHS is doing so much better, which it is thanks to the SG, but this is what will happen if we lose Holyrood and return to Westminster making the decisions.
The UK Gov could have been more proactive in getting Stormont up and running again eg calling new elections for the Assembly but it did not and as a result people are suffering. A graphic example of what will happen I’d the Tories close, or emasculate, the Scottish Parliament
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