Royal College of GPs chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne told i family doctors including herself are dealing with 'unsafe' numbers of patients on a daily basis.
GPs are now regularly seeing at least 60 patients a day in a “new normal” for primary care as some doctors are forced to drive people to hospital themselvesfamily doctors including herself are dealing with “unsafe” numbers of patients on a daily basis.
“The NHS needs sufficient funding, resources and a proper workforce plan to ensure it remains sustainable and safe for patients for years to come – and a robust recruitment and retention plan for general practice must be at the heart of this. Properly resourced, we could do so much to revive the NHS.”recommend no more than 25 contacts per day
Dr Lizzie Toberty, GP lead at Doctors’ Association UK, said: “GPs dealing with at least 60 patients a day is increasingly becoming the new normal. A few years ago between 30 and 35 would have been the average with less complex needs. Some practices reporting the first days back after Christmas and New Year Bank Holidays are speaking to between 2 and 3 per cent of their practice population on any given day.
Professor Hawthorne said: “We should never be in a situation whereby GPs or other team members are having to drive patients to hospital when they need emergency care. Aside from the potential medico-legal implications here, GPs are needed in their practices, delivering care to increasing numbers of patients with increasingly complex health conditions.
He referred to a group chat between 13,000 doctors who work on the front line and in primary care, saying: “There are thousands of these posts and they are very worrying. ‘In our hospital, we have such a long wait to get into the acute medical unit that we have a junior doctor on the roster called the ‘car triage’. This means they spend their whole shift checking on people waiting outside in their cars’.
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