Rammya Mathew: We risk creating a lost tribe of GPs

For the past 10 years the general practice workforce has been flooded with locum GPs. Many practices were unable to recruit salaried employees and instead were paying a premium for locum GPs to provide enough appointments to meet the needs of their patient list. In the past few months, however, I’m hearing stories from locum GPs who can no longer find work and are struggling.The change in market conditions is similar to what happened as the covid pandemic took hold, when demand for appointments plummeted and locums were cut loose overnight. But now, with the growth of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme, some might say that this latest development was more predictable. As networks of practices have been funded to take on more clinical support staff, practices are now able to offer enough appointments, and it no longer makes sense for them to employ expensive locum GPs. Policy makers insisted…
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