{"id":2767,"date":"2026-04-16T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:24:14","slug":"new-figures-underline-primary-care-underfunding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/new-figures-underline-primary-care-underfunding\/","title":{"rendered":"New figures underline primary care underfunding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK\u2019s GP lead says the \u2018access issues\u2019 to general practice facing patients are a result of underfunding under successive governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Steve Taylor was speaking to Pulse after new figures revealed the money spent on primary care in the past decade by NHS England and ICBs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data, Pulse reported, showed that \u2018primary care consistently received one of the lowest shares of funding\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Underfunded primary care<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Taylor said: \u201cSuccessive governments have underfunded primary care and in particular GP services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese figures demonstrate what is seen week by week with issues of access to services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese figures demonstrate government would be better off spending NHS funding on community services rather than gimmicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are 6,300 neighbourhood centres already in walking distance of 80% of people \u2013 GP practices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/politics\/gps-warn-of-underfunding-as-primary-care-share-lags-behind-nhs-growth\/\">Read the Pulse article in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a non-profit campaigning and lobbying organisation led by frontline doctors, for frontline doctors. We are volunteers and our collective aim is to give frontline workers a voice to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please support our work by contributing to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our crowd funder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK\u2019s GP lead says the \u2018access issues\u2019 to general practice facing patients are a result of underfunding under successive governments. Dr Steve Taylor was speaking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,59],"tags":[22,23,669,153,322],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-in-the-media","category-general-practice","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-crisis","tag-gp-funding","tag-pulse","tag-pulse-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}