Protect your practice Posted or Updated on 18 Oct 2024

The number of things that General Practitioners (GPs) must do has increased a lot lately.

They are handling extra work that hospitals should be doing, and they are seeing more older patients who have complicated health issues. At the same time, GPs are not getting enough money from the government. This is making it very hard for them, and some surgeries are even having to close-down.

There's a campaign going on to get more money for general practice healthcare.

We usually try to help more than we are supposed to, but it's getting very hard to keep up. In some areas, doctors can’t even pay their staff or bills, and some clinics are having to close.

We don’t want that to happen here.

What are we doing?

Doctors should only see a safe number of 25 patients each day. To make sure this happens, we will limit how many patients each doctor sees to 25 and send patients to other healthcare workers when needed. We will also stop doing tests that other healthcare providers should handle, like blood tests for specialists.

How can you support us ?

Please be understanding with our reception staff as they help you find the right service for your needs. This allows GPs to do the work they should be doing- dealing with highly complex medical problems

We need to act now to help your practice survive. This is important to us, and we want to support the national campaign for more money for basic healthcare. This way, surgeries like ours can hire enough staff and have the resources needed to give good care to all patients.

We hope that the issues can be solved quickly, and that general practice can have a better future as a result.

Thank you for your understanding.  Now that you know, please support us by telling others around you. You can read more about this on the BMA website (GPs Are On your Side (bma.org.uk))