The plan was announced in February. At the Labour Party conference at the end of last month, Wes Streeting said he would not back down. The change came into effect on 1 October.
“GPs are complaining that they are desperately overworked and cannot cope,” Dr. Vernon Coleman writes. “But the evidence proves that GPs are NOT overworked.”
GPs in the UK are threatening to go on strike if it is made easier for patients to make appointments. They are complaining that they are desperately overworked and cannot cope.
But the evidence proves that GPs are NOT overworked. After all, the average GP now works just 23 to 24 hours a week. Most people would regard that as part-time work. And GPs are paid around £150,000 a year plus huge fees for giving vaccines about which most know only what the drug companies have told them. They won’t do visits or night calls, and many refuse to take blood samples, syringe ears or remove stitches. Thousands refuse to see patients face to face – insisting on virtual appointments by phone (which are worse than useless, very dangerous and responsible for many unnecessary and early deaths). Despite all this, GPs are threatening to do even less work.
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