Must watch report on how the Coservative party are destroying the NHS by stopping GP practcies from hiring more GPs - shame on them #C4News Victoria Macdonald, "Patients complain that they can't get through to their GPs on the phone.. Appointments.. Can't be seen for 2, 3 even 4 weeks" "At the same time we're hearing about GPs who can't get jobs and locums who are out of work" "British Medical Association.. A survey of 2,000 GPs in England.. 4 in 5 are struggling to find work.. 1 in 3 are leaving the NHS" Dr Katie Bramail-Stainer, "This has been a problem for 10 months.. We've told Conservative ministers.. We've told the department of health.. And it's got worse" "The income going into GP practices is dropping.. They are cut to the bone.. They have no resources" Victoria Macdonald, "£1.4 billion has been ring fenced for physios, paramedics or physician associates (fake GPs).. So practices have no choice but to employ them instead of GPs and nurses" Dr Suzanne Gaskell, "Locum GPs who have never struggled to find shifts are struggling to find anything at all.. Lots have gone overseas to Canada, Australia" Dr Steve Taylor, "GPs are doing 20% more work since the pandemic.. It's probably why they're not investing.. But patients all the time are saying they can't get access to their GP" Matt Frei then tears apart Conservative Maria Caulfield who tries to dismiss the issue affecting GPs
@implausibleblog @JulieKarenMaye1 A friend of mine is a GP who relied on locum work. She now struggles to get any work because GP practices either just go without or palm off patients to less qualified staff. It’s a national disgrace.
@implausibleblog @RaeSnape Our GP waiting list must be 2 months .. I booked an appointment in May and first available was July
@implausibleblog I tried the pharmacy route, they can only give 3 day course of antibiotics which wasn't enough in my case, so had to then battle to get through to GP to get more antibiotics. Total waste of my time and theirs.
@implausibleblog It's a national scandal. Doctors, consultants & medical professionals, have been sounding the alarm.🚨 Patients are dying. 🪦 This is a scam.💵🚔PA money needs to be spent on employing & training GPs & Nurses. Urgently lifting the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS)
@implausibleblog @wesstreeting What is the Labour Party’s position on this?
@implausibleblog Where I live in the East Riding of Yorkshire, my GP has same day appointments, there service is slick and further investigation is carried out promptly. Well done them obviously against the trend.
@implausibleblog @LazeeLeftEye63 4 weeks. I've had to book 6 weeks in advance for non-urgent, including getting test results.
@implausibleblog @willshome Ring fencing funding is the evil in social services as well, more funding is allocated to placing kids in care (mostly private) than supporting family to keep them together. There needs to be more awareness of this imo. Great interview, just wish that had been discussed at length
@implausibleblog @DaveLac30876029 Well said, this gov have lied & destroyed the NHS
@implausibleblog My local practice seems to have lost over 50% of the doctors.
@implausibleblog We know it is middle management who call the shots when in receipt of the GP contracts and finances and the doctors’ hands are tied ! #Beyondkafkaesque#Kafka
@implausibleblog In a normal healthcare system, the only thing a family doctor with a license to practice needs are patients, not an employer. Another proof that the NHS it is not a normal healthcare system .
@implausibleblog This needs reposting widely. It is outrageous
@implausibleblog The practice I work in has an ad out for a locum GP.. they expected to be swamped .. got 1 so far … it’s in a nice town with good transport links and facilities.. so where are the locums ?
@implausibleblog Beyond that the broke NHS only pay a basic price for prescriptions to Pharmacies. When there’s huge shortages, the pharmacies buy more expensive prices and have to absorb the additional cost. Pharmacies are being forced into bankruptcy.
@implausibleblog This is wild. My GP practice (near Kings Cross) is fantastic. I feel fortunate after hearing this.
@implausibleblog Tories deliberately preventing patients seeing a GP through workforce planning as if this had nothing to do with them!
@implausibleblog Sometime soon everyone will be using GPT instead of GP’s to do their medical diagnosis for them. If the government can’t be fucked to hire human GP’s let the ai’s issues prescriptions and tests. They are already likely out performing physicians assistants 🤷♂️
@implausibleblog Horrible Tory kernts
@implausibleblog Not sure that's quite true. GPs are being funded for other health staff, just not locum GPs - who are the ones complaining. I have trouble with the principle of a locum GP. If they can afford a locum, get a permanent doctor. If you want to be a GP, why be a locum?
@implausibleblog Ohhh, but look over there!! Migrants are coming for your children!!!!
@implausibleblog 20% more work , hmm .. Our surgery, when you can get an appointment,had all seats removed,and seating is arranged around the outside of the room And has an average of 5-6 people waiting,the room used to be packed and only 10mins appointments,then they’d get angry if went longer .
@implausibleblog Caulfield demonstrating through weapons grade stupidity, mulish obfuscation & misguided ideological stubbornness why the Tory party deserves to be out of government for generations to come.
@implausibleblog Literally, who put Maria Caulfield in charge?
@implausibleblog This is the same in Wales and just to be clear we have a Labour lead government, be careful what you wish for just look over the border of the shit show Wales has. None of the mainstream parties have a clue, we need something new and it’s not red or blue.
@implausibleblog @VintiquesMark The government are actively stopping surgeries from employing doctors!!! They have told them fake doctors must be used!!! This is another national disgrace and disaster!! #NeverVoteConserative
@implausibleblog Murderers deserve no justice
@implausibleblog Nobody trusts the murderous GPS anymore. They covered for the wuhan bioweapon release. They then pushed the narrative of bioweapon clotshots. Murderers need nurenberg