{"id":1312,"date":"2024-11-11T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/glut-of-unemployed-and-underemployed-gps-ready-to-work\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:03:48","slug":"glut-of-unemployed-and-underemployed-gps-ready-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/glut-of-unemployed-and-underemployed-gps-ready-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Glut’ of unemployed and underemployed GPs ready to work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor highlighted the number of GPs who are out of work or struggling to fill their hours during a national radio discussion on NHs funding and reforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK), said there was \u2018a glut\u2019 of GPs ready and able to work straight away.<\/p>\n

He called for the funding to be made available to employ them to help take the pressure off the wider NHS.<\/p>\n

Dr Taylor said: \u201cWe all want to see the GP quickly. I\u2019ve been number 31 in the queue waiting on a Monday morning to book in with my own GP.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a shortage of appointments but we\u2019ve got GPs who are unemployed and underemployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did a recent survey that found that there\u2019s the equivalent of 3,000 doctors unemployed or underemployed who could be working tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is the funding isn\u2019t there to make that work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can get the funding in I think we will find that it all starts to work a bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n

NHS reform<\/h3>\n

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Dr Taylor was speaking to Chloe Tilley and Calum Macdonald on Times Radio Breakfast about the appointment of former Health Secretary Alan Milburn as a lead non-executive director on the board of the health department.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said there will be no extra NHS funding without reform.<\/p>\n

But Dr Taylor said the extra funding needed to come first and then reform would more easily follow.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn general practice we\u2019ve had a 20 per cent cut in funding per patient over the past eight years.<\/p>\n

\u201cGPs are now doing 20 per cent more work than before Covid in 2019, so there\u2019s been a funding cut but an increase in productivity. That\u2019s not necessarily true of hospitals but it is true of general practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say we need to reform before we have the funding is the wrong way round. Give us the funding and we will definitely make it work better.\u201d<\/p>\n

GP funding cut<\/h3>\n

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Dr Taylor added: \u201cWe\u2019ve done well over the last four or five years in training more and more GPs ready for the workforce, but during that period there has been a cut in the funding to general practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow there\u2019s just not enough funding in the system to employ the doctors that we want.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome doctors are moving into the private sector, others are leaving the country altogether<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is we have doctors who want to work, there just isn\u2019t the funding in the system to make it work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe funding needs to be there to employ them and we can make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Support the work of DAUK by\u00a0becoming a member<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0donating to our Go Fund Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Listen again to Dr Taylor\u2019s interview with Chloe Tilley and Calum Macdonald on Times Radio Breakfast<\/a><\/span>. It starts at around one hour, 20 minutes into the broadcast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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