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Newly qualified doctors will be offered “golden hellos” if they become a GP under a £10m NHS plan to help overcome the growing shortage of family doctors.
The initiative is part of a new package of measures designed to boost the number of GPs joining the profession, deter early retirement and encourage those who have taken a career break, for example to work abroad or have children, to rejoin the workforce.
The move has been prompted by concern among health service leaders, ministers and GP organisations that a lack of family doctors will worsen the growing problems GPs face dealing with more and more patients seeking an appointment.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/26/new-doctors-offered-golden-hello-become-gps-nhs-fund
The initiative is part of a new package of measures designed to boost the number of GPs joining the profession, deter early retirement and encourage those who have taken a career break, for example to work abroad or have children, to rejoin the workforce.
The move has been prompted by concern among health service leaders, ministers and GP organisations that a lack of family doctors will worsen the growing problems GPs face dealing with more and more patients seeking an appointment.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/26/new-doctors-offered-golden-hello-become-gps-nhs-fund