DAUK joined general practitioners from across the country in Westminster to highlight the GP crisis.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDr Lizzie Toberty, our GP lead, and Dr Sarah Jacques and Dr Steve Taylor, members of our GP committee were in Parliament to raise alarm bells with MPs.\r\n\r\nThey were at the launch of a general practice white paper by publisher Cogora. DAUK\u2019s GP committee has contributed to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The launch brought together key stakeholders and professionals from across primary care, as well as MPs.\r\n\r\nStakeholders included general practice leaders from the BMA, Royal College of General Practice (RCGP), the Institute for General Practice Management (IGPM), and campaigners from Rebuild General Practice.\r\n\r\nSpeaking to Pulse<\/a>, one of Cogora\u2019s publications, Dr Taylor said the white paper was ‘important’\r\n\r\n“There are unemployed GPs and practices can\u2019t afford to employ those GPs,” he said.\r\n\r\n\u201cWithout the funding, there will be fewer doctors and it will take us in the wrong direction.\r\n\r\n\u201cAnd this is an emergency that needs to be dealt with in the next 12 to 18 months. It can\u2019t wait for another five to 10 years.\r\n\r\n\u201cGeneral practice gets such a small proportion of the NHS budget and there is flexibility to correct this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Toberty added: \u201cIt is absolutely possible to find that funding for general practice within that timeframe.\r\n\r\n\u201cBecause there is money there, it is in the ARRS, which is unevidenced and there is a growing feeling that it isn\u2019t providing value for money.\r\n\r\n\u201cA better way would be to return that money into core funding to allow practices to flex their workforce to their local population. This isn\u2019t a hopeless situation.\u201d\r\n\r\nRead the full report<\/a>, called the Cogora General Practice Workforce White Paper.\r\n\r\nWe are a non-profit organisation led by frontline doctors, for frontline doctors. Our collective aim is to give frontline workers a voice.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to our crowd funder<\/a> or by becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DAUK joined general practitioners from across the country in Westminster to highlight the GP crisis. Dr Lizzie Toberty, our GP lead, and Dr Sarah Jacques…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58],"tags":[658,656,22,304,23],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-practice","category-the-nhs","tag-dr-lizzie-toberty","tag-dr-sarah-jacques","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-committee","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GP funding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n