Professor John Robertson OBA
Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this.
In the Guardian yesterday, the above and:
GPs can no longer guarantee safe care for millions of patients because of a dangerous shortage of medics, Britain’s top family doctor has said. Prof Kamila Hawthorne, the chair of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), said surgeries were desperate to hire more doctors to meet soaring demand for care but could not afford to do so because of a lack of core funding. Exhausted family doctors have been working “completely unsafe hours” because their surgeries did not have the cash to recruit new staff or replace those quitting, increasing the risk of serious errors or deadly conditions being missed, she said.
There has actually been a slight 1.3% improvement in the ratio of the number of patients to GPs in England, since September 2024, from 2 270 per FTE GP to 2 241 patients per GP. 1
In Scotland, a more significant 3.1% improvement from 1 734 to 1 680 per FTE GP.2
And in Wales, from 2 375 to 2 440, a 2.8% worsening.3
So, in Scotland each GP is responsible for 1 680 patients while in England and Wales it’s between 2 241 and 2440, around 500 more, nearly one third more. That can’t be healthy, can it?
Sources:
- https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/patients-registered-at-a-gp-practice/september-2024
- https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/general-practice-demographics-data-visualisation/general-practice-demographics-data-visualisation-up-to-31-march-2024/
- https://www.gov.wales/general-practice-workforce-31-march-2024-html
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Doctors are paid per number of patients. Plus extra duties.
The appointed Health Boards (unionist) are useless and cause a lot of problems for GP’s and practices.
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The Tories cut NHS/Healthcare funding.
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