An interesting one from today's Guardian ... I did suggest a two horse race a few months ago ... between GP surgeries closing and food banks opening ... who would win by the numbers ?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ly-doctors
Plenty of real meat in this one , worth reading in full .... especially if you are seeing the same on your manor.
Plenty of comments in the usual section , one at random from someone actually at ground zero :
Food banks ... or GP surgeries ... the bet is still on.
Bookies are offering 4-5 on each , and cannot split the two.
Whichever wins , it will be a devastating result ?
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A little irony .... ?
What would be the effect on GP surgeries IF low millions of carers played by the " Unofficial " Rule Book ?
Stopped being unpaid doctors and nurses themselves , and referred their caree to the local surgery on every occasion ?
Guilty as charged many times over during my stretch .... how about you ... ???
An average nurse receives , on average , 10 times more than an average carer receives in Carers Pittance.
A doctor ? Around 30 times.
And yet , at times , who are the REAL professionals ???
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ly-doctors
Why are so many GPs shutting up shop ?
Brighton and Hove has lost a quarter of its surgeries in two years, as pressure on the primary care sector takes its toll on family doctors across the country
Ridgeway will be the eighth GP practice in Brighton and Hove to close since February 2015. The local health watchdog estimates that up to a quarter of the city’s surgeries have shut since 2015, with more than 33,500 patients being forced to change GPs during that time. David Liley, chief officer of Healthwatch Brighton and Hove, says: “We have a situation where growing demand is being met by fewer people. We’ve heard of people who have had to change GPs not once, not twice, but three times.”
Brighton and Hove’s clinical commissioning group says: “It’s mainly due to the rising demand on services and the challenges being faced with recruitment and retaining GPs. This pressure is particularly felt in small single-GP practices and, of the eight recent closures, five had patient lists that were relatively small in number.”
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health says: “We are continuing to back primary care services, with 5,000 more doctors in general practice by 2020.” But there are doubts that the targets are achievable, with 3,000 new GPs due to be recruited mainly from mainland Europe. “Brexit is causing many European doctors to have second thoughts about coming to the UK,” says Vautrey. “They need reassurance, we know that Brexit is causing them concern.”
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Back in Woodingdean, residents do not blame the two Ridgeway doctors for shutting up shop after 17 years at the practice. One is retiring and the surgery was unable to continue as a single-handed operation. But there is a sense of being messed around by a system that is bordering on dysfunctional. “People just panicked and they didn’t know what to do,” says Bobby Dalby, aged 78. “I think the whole thing has been handled badly by the NHS.”
Plenty of real meat in this one , worth reading in full .... especially if you are seeing the same on your manor.
Plenty of comments in the usual section , one at random from someone actually at ground zero :
I worked as a locum at Whitehawk road practice shortly before leaving the UK.
I was the sole doctor there for a roughly 5000 patient list, plus home visits alone in an area with high levels of drug addiction.
When I arrived there was a receptionist and an instruction book for the computer software.
There didn't appear to be a practice manager, presumably because it was one of the practices managed at arms length either by the PCT or a larger business.
I was told there was a nurse but they were not there the days I was.
It was a well maintained, friendly appearing place, but who would stay to work there ?
It was as far as I could see completely unsupported on the ground in an area with huge social deprivation issues.
You were never going to be able to hit government targets, leaving the practice chronically underfunded.
For this, as a sole partner, your salary would be at the bottom of the scale while GPs in group practices in 'nice' areas would have a quarter the stress for twice the salary or more.
Food banks ... or GP surgeries ... the bet is still on.
Bookies are offering 4-5 on each , and cannot split the two.
Whichever wins , it will be a devastating result ?
#################################################################
A little irony .... ?
What would be the effect on GP surgeries IF low millions of carers played by the " Unofficial " Rule Book ?
Stopped being unpaid doctors and nurses themselves , and referred their caree to the local surgery on every occasion ?
Guilty as charged many times over during my stretch .... how about you ... ???
An average nurse receives , on average , 10 times more than an average carer receives in Carers Pittance.
A doctor ? Around 30 times.
And yet , at times , who are the REAL professionals ???