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The Herald today has – Warning of rising pressure on GPs – by Andrew Buist, supposedly a ‘senior doctor‘ but really just a former shop steward. Here’s the opening text:

I don’t need to tell you what this supposed journalism is – a Scottish Labour election pamphlet, no more.

How are things for GPs really in Scotland?

GPs get 33% more per patient* in Scotland than in England and the funding trend is up in Scotland, down in England

Why have NHS England A&E departments had to deal with 1 million sore throats but there are no comparable reports in Scotland? Scottish GPs have nearly 600 fewer patients to care for

How can future of GP services in Scotland be ‘hanging in the balance’ when on average a GP in England has 560 more patients on his books and the BMA in England says UK Government should ‘simply follow the example of the government in Scotland?’

Jackie Baillie apparently blowing a big bubble of lies as Scotland leads the rest of the UK on winter preparations with more flu vaccines delivered, more GPs, more nurses and more beds

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?

The scale of the drift to privatisation – Nearly 100% of GPs in Scotland work in the NHS but only 66% do so in England

‘Patients are suffering?’ Yet Scotland has almost twice as many GPs per head as England and Wales and around half a million more Scots report easy access to a GP than would have if they lived there instead

GPs in poor parts of England are paid £5,500 less a year than in wealthy areas but in Scotland get a £10 000 incentive

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