At GP’s locums conference last month I was struck by how much the GP workforce has changed.
Dr Liliana Risi, cancer lead for NHS Tower Hamlets, told the conference that 61% of GPs in the east London borough are now sessional GPs, a high number of whom are undoubtedly locums. Read more »
A recent GMC report has raised questions over the competency of some GP trainees and recently qualified GPs.
Feedback from the RCGP has suggested that while training standards are high, young GPs are suffering from a lack of confidence. More support and exposure to patients is suggested as the solution, particularly in paediatric medicine, long-term conditions and out-of-hours.
Since the publication of the health White
Paper in July proposing the development of commissioning consortia, there
has been much speculation about what it will involve and the impact that it
will have on the GP profession.
Take one look at the latest income figures for general practice and it’s easy to see why the government is so confident in its manipulation of the profession.
It’s often been said that organising GPs is like herding cats, but general practice today is a mosaic of its former self. One could even go so far as to suggest that WH Auden would have swapped his elderly fizzog for the current face of the profession.
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