GPs: ‘no crisis’ claims are ‘wildly inaccurate’

  Ministerial claims that there is no recruitment crisis in general practice in Wales have been labelled ‘wildly inaccurate’ and ‘demoralising’ by GPs. GPs meeting at the Welsh local medical committees conference last weekend highlighted the daily pressures they face. In her opening speech to the conference, BMA Cymru Wales GPs committee chair Charlotte Jones said she had highlighted two years ago how general practice needed a ‘full resuscitation package’ to revive it. She told this year’s conference in Chester: ‘One year ago, we had some flickers of life on the GP intensive care monitor but the prognosis was not looking good. 'This year, we have seen some improvements and with some TLC it is feasible that general practice could soon move from ITU to the critical care unit in Wales.’ She added: ‘There is a long way to go before we can reach the rehabilitation wards. 'The recent wildly inaccurate comments from the first minister claiming that there is no problem with general practice in Wales is simply untrue, demoralising for the workforce and unfair on the Welsh public, who deserve the truth about the strain our profession is under.’   Workforce numbers Dr Jones was responding to comments that first minister Carwyn Jones had made to a newspaper in which he was quoted as saying that there will be ‘issues from time to time where a GP decides to stop, but that service then is carried on by a sa...
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