๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐, ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐.
| Analysis by the House of Commons Library found that 1.3 million people in May faced four week waits โ compared with 912,000 a year earlier. The research showed that 4.8% of practice appointments involved waits of at least four weeks โ while in Gloucestershire and Sheffield the proportion rose close to 10%. The Royal College of GPs said GPs and their teams cannot โwork any harderโ. Through the change in our patient triage and access system we are able to filter out the high risk cases for same day review and cancer risk cases for urgent review improving patients outcomes with serious disease. Although we appreciate we cant always meet what patients would want we are able to meet what is clinical needed. Chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne has said that we now have 900 fewer full-time fully qualified GPs compared to 2019 and โThe current pressures in general practice are through no fault of hardworking GPs and their teams, but due to years of underfunding and poor workforce planning in our family doctor service. GP teams make the vast majority of NHS patient contacts, and in doing so alleviate pressure across the NHS, including in A&E. But for this to work, general practice must be properly resourced and properly staffed – and currently that is not the case.โ |