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GP leaders have launched a major new campaign to warn patients that underfunding has left the future of general practice hanging in the balance.
The BMA’s 'Your GP Cares' campaign will draw public attention to the pressures from increasing demand and call for long-term, sustainable investment in general practice.
The campaign will call on politicians to recognise the ‘unprecedented strain’ GPs are under. It will point to the combined effect of the rising number of vulnerable patients; increasing workload with no extra funding; appointment delays; the worsening state of practices; plummeting GP morale; and more patients with chronic diseases.
The BMA campaign will reinforce the RCGP's 'Put Patients First' campaign, which demands a halt in the decline of NHS funding aimed at general practice, and calls for 11% of the NHS budget to go to primary care by 2017.
http://www.gponline.com/bma-enlist-patients-campaign-against-gp-funding-crisis/article/1293912
The BMA’s 'Your GP Cares' campaign will draw public attention to the pressures from increasing demand and call for long-term, sustainable investment in general practice.
The campaign will call on politicians to recognise the ‘unprecedented strain’ GPs are under. It will point to the combined effect of the rising number of vulnerable patients; increasing workload with no extra funding; appointment delays; the worsening state of practices; plummeting GP morale; and more patients with chronic diseases.
The BMA campaign will reinforce the RCGP's 'Put Patients First' campaign, which demands a halt in the decline of NHS funding aimed at general practice, and calls for 11% of the NHS budget to go to primary care by 2017.
http://www.gponline.com/bma-enlist-patients-campaign-against-gp-funding-crisis/article/1293912