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Ministers look likely to spectacularly fail to meet targets on GP recruitment.
An analysis claims they are expected to hire just 2,100 additional family doctors by 2020 – not even half the number they promised. And that is a best case scenario.
The Government has repeatedly pledged to install an additional 5,000 GPs within the next four years to offer more evening and weekend appointments.
But experts have questioned whether this was a realistic prospect given the fact so many doctors are retiring early or moving overseas.
In addition, surgeries are struggling to hire young GPs who are opting instead to specialise as hospital doctors or surgeons, which are deemed more glamorous careers.
Figures analysed by GP magazine Pulse show that by 2020 there will be an extra 13,000 family doctors joining the NHS, including 11,800 trainees and 1,000 returning from overseas. But they will be offset by the 10,700 who are likely to leave, of whom 7,200 will retire and 3,500 move abroad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...vening-weekend-appointments-warn-experts.html
An analysis claims they are expected to hire just 2,100 additional family doctors by 2020 – not even half the number they promised. And that is a best case scenario.
The Government has repeatedly pledged to install an additional 5,000 GPs within the next four years to offer more evening and weekend appointments.
But experts have questioned whether this was a realistic prospect given the fact so many doctors are retiring early or moving overseas.
In addition, surgeries are struggling to hire young GPs who are opting instead to specialise as hospital doctors or surgeons, which are deemed more glamorous careers.
Figures analysed by GP magazine Pulse show that by 2020 there will be an extra 13,000 family doctors joining the NHS, including 11,800 trainees and 1,000 returning from overseas. But they will be offset by the 10,700 who are likely to leave, of whom 7,200 will retire and 3,500 move abroad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...vening-weekend-appointments-warn-experts.html