The NHS is facing a chronic shortage of GPs, as new figures show family doctors are quitting at a rate of three a day. GP surgeries in England lost nearly 300 full-time doctors in the three months before Christmas, according to official NHS stats.
They were over-stretched even before the pandemic - expected to take on more work with no extra time to do it. And now the extra pressures of Covid-19, including helping to deliver Britain’s world-beating Covid jab rollout, have left many facing burnout.
New doctors can’t be trained quick enough to replace them - with a shortfall of 7,000 GPs expected by 2023. Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: “GPs and our teams want to provide safe, high-quality care to our
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