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40 per cent of GPs to quit within five years, survey claims
The survey accumulated the responses of nearly 1,200 GPs, 82 per cent of those said they would be leaving general practice, reducing their clinical hours or taking a career break. Of these figures, 42 per cent said they intended to leave the job completely and 23 per cent said they planned to take a break.
In contrast, 5.6 per cent of respondents said they planned to increase their hours of clinical work. GPs who are planning to leave cited the volume and intensity of work, amount of time spent on necessary tasks and introduction of a seven-day contract as contributing factors responsible for their decision.
The study’s authors, from the University of Warwick Medical School, said their findings reflected ‘the breadth and magnitude of factors contributing to the workforce crisis facing general practice in England’ and suggest the ‘the scale of this crisis may be even greater than previously reported’.
They concluded: “New models of professionalism and organisational arrangements may be needed to address the issues described here. Without urgent action, the GP workforce crisis in England seems set to worsen.”
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