Family doctors are \u2018firefighting\u2019 in the face of rising demand and long-term underfunding, says DAUK\u2019s GP co-lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Steve Taylor was speaking to GP Online on the findings of the latest Health Survey for England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
GP Online reported that the survey reveals rising pressure on general practice as a growing proportion of the population lives with poor health and long-term illness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: \u201cThe lack of investment in health has created this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are reaping what we sowed over 15 years of austerity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s also an element of an ageing population, more long-term issues because of the huge waiting list, more people who are ill and overstretched GPs with not enough time to spend on prevention, so the problems increase again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the GP Online article on what the Health Survey for England shows about pressure on GPs<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Dr Taylor spoke to Pulse on a survey by United Medical Associate Professionals (UMAPs). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The survey found that 76% of PAs said their scope of practice has been restricted since the publication of the Leng review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Taylor said: \u2018I would say their scope has been reduced rightly, because I think there was significant risk for patients with somebody that\u2019s had such limited training to be seeing undifferentiated patients.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the Pulse article in full<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n DAUK\u2019s committee members are all volunteers. They campaign and speak in the media about issues facing doctors in their own time. Please support our work by joining DAUK<\/a> or donating to our GoFundMe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Family doctors are \u2018firefighting\u2019 in the face of rising demand and long-term underfunding, says DAUK\u2019s GP co-lead. Dr Steve Taylor was speaking to GP Online…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,691],"tags":[22,55,639,636,153],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-practice","category-medical-allied-professions","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-online","tag-maps","tag-physician-associates","tag-pulse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","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=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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