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Northern Ireland GPs ‘on edge of crisis’
General practice in Northern Ireland is ‘on the edge of a full-blown crisis’, a survey by the British Medical Association (BMA) has suggested.
Approximately 65 per cent of practices across Northern Ireland took part in the survey, with the BMA using the results to highlight certain difficulties, such as workforce and workload issues, and how some services are struggling to survive.
Additionally, the survey claimed that the majority of practices in rural areas are at risk of closure, with County Fermanagh facing the possibility of three out of four practices in danger of closure.
Dr Tom Black, the chair of the Northern Ireland General Practitioners' Committee (NIGPC), said: "Unless action is taken and funding is made available, there is a real risk of practices closing, GPs retiring and thousands of patients here facing the very real prospect of not having a GP to call on when they need help.
"We must find ways of securing general practice in the short term and evolve to a modern, sustainable model of general practice for the future to allow us to provide a service that meets the needs of patients."
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