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Primary Care sector survey reveals low morale
A survey by Primary Care publisher Cogora has found that 44 per cent (from 2,386 surveyed) of GPs, practice managers, practice and community nurses and community pharmacists are thinking of leaving their jobs in the coming year. This includes a quarter of respondents who are not even close to retirement age.
The findings are presented in Cogora’s sixth Primary Concerns report, entitled The State of Primary Care 2018, which provides an insight into the current state of the sector from healthcare professionals.
The survey of the readers of Cogora’s five primary care publications - Pulse, Management in Practice, Nursing in Practice, Healthcare Leader and The Pharmacist – suggests that rising workload, lack of resources and feeling ‘overworked, overwhelmed and underpaid’ are driving the workforce to quit.
Readers were quizzed on a range of aspects of primary care, including how often they face patient abuse, changes in their prescribing habits, the effect of medicine shortages and what impact the GP Forward View and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) have had on patient care.
For the sixth year running, morale remains low among staff, with the decision makers - GP partners, pharmacy contractors and superintendent pharmacists - feeling it the most.
Across all job roles, the highest influencer of low morale is unrealistic demand from patients. Feeling unappreciated by management and workload from other sectors (‘workload dumping’) are also high on their lists.
And as the original deadline for Brexit approaches, respondents give their verdict on how they believe it will affect the NHS. Three-quarters thought it would have a negative impact on the number of nurses working in the NHS and 71 per cent said it would adversely affect the number of GPs.
The effect on medicine supplies is causing the most concern, with 64 per cent saying they thought the UK leaving the EU would have a negative impact on the availability of drugs and 54 per cent thought it would lead to community pharmacies stockpiling.
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