UK GPs service deteriorated in 2015
A new survey has revealed that the service that British patients get from their local general practitioner surgery is getting worse because they cannot cope with “an avalanche of workload.”
In the survey of 2,837 general practitioners, 55% said the quality of the service they provide their patients with deteriorated in 2015. This means that too many patients are no longer getting the appointments, treatment and range of services they need.
The survey also found that 68% of family doctors regard their workload as unmanageable some or all of the time.
“These figures clearly show that general practice is in a state of emergency, with the majority of GP practices across England registering a deterioration in the quality of care being delivered to patients,” said Beth McCarron, a member of the GP executive team at the British Medical Association (BMA).
This comes as the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt is planning to unveil an emergency package of measures to relieve the growing strain on family doctors.
The Department of Health sought to play down the findings and stressed that they were not representative of GPs as a whole because they were based on the views of only one in three of them.
More and more surgeries are closing because GPs feel they can no longer cope with their increasing workload.
Now leaked figures show that the number of young doctors applying to become trainee GPs has fallen to a record low.
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