{"id":1191,"date":"2023-12-08T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gp-crisis-licence-fee-to-cost-more-than-the-government-pays-for-general-practice\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:26:14","slug":"gp-crisis-licence-fee-to-cost-more-than-the-government-pays-for-general-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gp-crisis-licence-fee-to-cost-more-than-the-government-pays-for-general-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"GP crisis: Licence fee to cost more than the Government pays for general practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors\u2019 Association UK\u2019s (DAUK) GP lead has called for the Government to show it cares about general practice by investing in primary care after years of cuts to its funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Lizzie Toberty said that, following this week\u2019s rise, people&nbsp;will be&nbsp;paying more for their TV licence fee than the Government pays for general practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added that music festival tickets, phone contracts and even pet insurance all cost more than the per-patient funding the Government puts into primary care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Toberty said: \u201cThe per-patient funding for primary care currently stands at<a href=\"https:\/\/digital.nhs.uk\/data-and-information\/publications\/statistical\/nhs-payments-to-general-practice\/england-2022-23\/executive-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;\u00a3164&nbsp;<\/a>annually, regardless of visit frequency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe TV licence fee has just gone up to \u00a3169.50, which means that the Government is happy for people to pay more for their TV licence than it is willing to put into GP healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFestival tickets, phone contracts and pet insurance all cost more than GP services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re experiencing a funding and staffing crisis in primary care and that lack of investment over the past decade and a half is the main reason that people struggle to get a GP appointment, and that really matters to people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe rightfully have high expectations of what our GPs should be able to do for us and everyone is up in arms when they\u2019re not able to get an appointment,&nbsp; and yet the Government doesn\u2019t value it and pay for it in a meaningful and significant way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf it had kept up with inflation, GP funding should be closer to \u00a3197 per patient, which would make a massive difference to the service we provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a huge shortage of GPs in the UK and it would really help to address that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s time for the Government to show it cares about primary care and to invest in it properly to ensure the best service for patients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors\u2019 Association UK\u2019s (DAUK) GP lead has called for the Government to show it cares about general practice by investing in primary care after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59,58],"tags":[38,62,23,42],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-gp","tag-gp-crisis","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}