Scrap “outdated” part time and full time GP classifications, says incoming RCGP chair

The classification of “part time” and “full time” GPs should be discarded as it no longer reflects the hours or intensity of work they are doing, the incoming chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has said.In an exclusive interview with The BMJ,1 south Wales GP Kamila Hawthorne said that most GPs are working three to five 11 hour days a week on a regular basis, with many working more than that, even doing their paperwork in the evenings and on weekends.“The modern way of approaching your work is to organise it completely differently to the rigid way of part time or full time working,” she said.Part of the anti-GP rhetoric in the right wing press before and during the pandemic has centred around the idea that part time GPs are to blame for access problems.2 This is despite many part time GPs working the equivalent of what…
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