{"id":1366,"date":"2025-04-24T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/arrs-gp-funding-a-sticking-plaster-on-gaping-wound\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:35:29","slug":"arrs-gp-funding-a-sticking-plaster-on-gaping-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/arrs-gp-funding-a-sticking-plaster-on-gaping-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"ARRS GP funding a &#8216;sticking plaster on a gaping wound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adding GPs to ARRS funding is like \u2018sticking a plaster on a gaping wound\u2019, says DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor said the funding of general practice was harming patient care, as he called for GP to patient ratios to be improved.\r\n\r\nNow he has renewed calls by the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) for the Government to invest in general practice for the good of the nation\u2019s health.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor, DAUK GP spokesperson, was responding to a new report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk\/publication\/performance-tracker-local\/general-practice-england\">Institute for Government<\/a> think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Issues facing general practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Institute for Government report again highlights the issues facing general practice, while highlighting what works well,\u201d he said.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere are too few GPs and too few GPs taking up positions as partners.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is despite clear evidence that more GPs and GP partnerships improve patient care, outcomes, and quality.\r\n\r\n\u201cSmaller practices are shown to be better overall.\u201d\r\n\r\nWriting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gponline.com\/dr-steve-taylor-arrs-really-brought-extra-1500-gps\/article\/1914897\">GP Online<\/a> earlier this week, Dr Taylor urged the Government to general practice directly to allow them to recruit GPs of any experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Government investment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now he has renewed DAUK\u2019s calls for sustained Government investment in general practice.\r\n\r\nHe said: \u201cDAUK\u2019s GP committee again calls for Wes Streeting, NHS England and the Department for Health and Social Care to invest in GP practices.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere is a clear consensus GP to patient ratios need to be improved. The only way to do this is to fund practices to employ, retain and recruit GPs.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe believe setting an initial limit of 3,000 patients per GP, with investment and incentives, will reverse 15 years of decline in GP numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sticking plaster<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe emergency strategy of adding ARRS GPs is merely a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. The wound is GP practice funding is harming patient care.\u201d\r\n\r\nRead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk\/publication\/performance-tracker-local\/general-practice-england\">Institute for Government<\/a> report.\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>Adding GPs to ARRS funding is like \u2018sticking a plaster on a gaping wound\u2019, says DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor. Dr Taylor said the funding of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59,58],"tags":[22,23,669],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","category-the-nhs","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-crisis","tag-gp-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","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=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/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=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}