{"id":1364,"date":"2025-04-23T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/fund-practices-to-recruit-gps\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:18:22","slug":"fund-practices-to-recruit-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/fund-practices-to-recruit-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fund practices to recruit GPs of any experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor has urged the Government to fund general practices directly to allow them to recruit GPs of any experience.\r\n\r\nWriting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gponline.com\/dr-steve-taylor-arrs-really-brought-extra-1500-gps\/article\/1914897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GPOnline<\/a>, Dr Taylor said that GPs were still unable to get work or the number of sessions they would like.\r\n\r\nThis was despite a change in the rules to make ARRS funding available for the recruitment of GPs, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GP unemployment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Taylor, DAUK\u2019s GP spokesperson, said: \u201cGP unemployment and underemployment hasn\u2019t gone away, despite patients needing GPs.\u201d\r\n\r\nDelving into the figures, Dr Taylor said that the extra 1,500 GPs announced by the Government was actually 851 full-time equivalents.\r\n\r\nAnd he said the number of GPs in ad-hoc locum roles had fallen.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis has affected me personally,\u201d he said. \u201cI have been replaced by ARRS GPs for two thirds of the sessions that I was working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Different GPs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPatients have no extra appointments, just different GPs.\u201d\r\n\r\nRead Dr Taylor\u2019s column in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gponline.com\/dr-steve-taylor-arrs-really-brought-extra-1500-gps\/article\/1914897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GPOnline<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3C2g7K4vo0MhujHA6swNwN\">our crowd funder<\/a> or by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3rlt6OKUEPJcwIoZj22ohz\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor has urged the Government to fund general practices directly to allow them to recruit GPs of any experience. Writing for GPOnline,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59],"tags":[557,22,23],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","tag-dauk-gp","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","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=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}