GPs express concerns about the quality and safety of their services with current resources

GPs are concerned about the quality and safety of the services they are currently providing as they try to meet growing demand while increasing access.Speaking at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) annual conference, held virtually on 27 October, the college’s vice chair of external affairs, Gary Howsam, said that there was a “real political imperative on speed of access at the moment” but that GPs are “worried” they are not being allowed to practise in the way they were trained.“There is inevitably going to be a trade off,” he said. “We need to have that honest conversation with the population when we come to looking at the funding models and going forwards . . . If you want speedy access and high quality, then it’s going to cost; it’s going to require more resources, and we’re going to need to train more people.”Owen Richards, RCGP’s chair of the…
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