Fresh thinking will help us find workforce solutions

The General Medical Council’s new data show that the fastest growing group of doctors—specialty and associate specialist and locally employed doctors—are being constrained from working where they are most needed.1Specialty and associate specialist and locally employed doctors are a highly skilled, varied group who provide a fantastic resource for the NHS, and our surveys show that many of them want better access to learning and career development. At the same time, GPs are more burnt out and experience greater workload pressures than any other group, and their numbers have risen by only 7% in five years.Yet current rules stop specialty and associate specialist doctors from working in primary care, where they could help tackle these challenges. To be clear, specialty and associate specialist doctors should not substitute for the highly skilled and specialised work that GPs do. But it’s easy to see that they could have a crucial role in…
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