DAUK’s Dr Steve Taylor has urged the Government to fund general practices directly to allow them to recruit GPs of any experience.
Writing for GPOnline, Dr Taylor said that GPs were still unable to get work or the number of sessions they would like.
This was despite a change in the rules to make ARRS funding available for the recruitment of GPs, he said.
GP unemployment
Dr Taylor, DAUK’s GP spokesperson, said: “GP unemployment and underemployment hasn’t gone away, despite patients needing GPs.”
Delving into the figures, Dr Taylor said that the extra 1,500 GPs announced by the Government was actually 851 full-time equivalents.
And he said the number of GPs in ad-hoc locum roles had fallen.
“This has affected me personally,” he said. “I have been replaced by ARRS GPs for two thirds of the sessions that I was working.
Different GPs
“Patients have no extra appointments, just different GPs.”
Read Dr Taylor’s column in GPOnline.
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