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GPs shortage crisis on the horizon
The survey shown on the BBC Programme Inside Out reveal findings follow warnings from the RCGP that many parts of England need to increase GP numbers by more than 50% by 2020 to cope with rising demand on primary care.
The college also warned at its 2014 conference that 600 practices could close within a year because they were staffed by high numbers of GPs close to retirement age.
Responding to the BBC survey, GPC and BMA education, training and workforce committee chairman Dr Krishna Kasaraneni, who features in the Inside Out programme, said: 'The BMA has been warning for some time that there is a real and serious GP workforce crisis emerging across the country.
'GP services are under unprecedented workload pressure, with practices seeing record numbers of patients - 40m more annually than in 2008 – against a background of mounting bureaucracy and falling resources.
'This has led to a significant drop in GP morale, and, as the BBC’s survey shows, has led to a worrying number of senior GPs choosing to retire early or work abroad, at the same time that general practice faces a serious shortfall in the number of doctors choosing to train as GPs.'
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