Evidence and consultation
Health and Social Care Committee workforce inquiry: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care
The 2019 Conservative Party manifesto included pledges to deliver 50,000 more nurses, 6,000 GPs and 6,000 other primary care professionals. Two years on, no plan to address workforce shortages has been published, funding for the training and development of staff was conspicuous by its absence from the Spending Review and the measures in the Bill relating to workforce remain weak.
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Additionally, the Royal College of GP's needs to accept some of the responsibility for the crisis in GP - they are, after all, the leaders of the profession.
To begin to understand the issues, we first need clear, accurate, meaningful data on how many people are going into GP, why they chose GP, why other doctors don't want to do it and what kind of work (salaried, partner, locum, full time v part time etc) they end up doing? Surveys of a few hundred won't give an accurate enough picture on what is happening and, as such, will limit the effectiveness of any proposed reforms.
http://www.reginafasold.com/blog/stuck-in-the-past-5-steps-to-personal-growth/
"Certainly, among trainees I know, barely any want to work full time after fully qualifying, and many are planning to take on locum roles."
How many young people, newly qualified, have the luxury of considering part time work? None that I know of - and that indicates to me that GPs are grossly overpaid for what they do. Of course it is a stressful job - try being a carer or even try the job of someone else in a different profession on matched pay - these jobs will all be 'stressful'. One of the biggest problem in the NHS today is the enormous salary bill and we are still held to ransom over contracts. I have lost all patience
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