NHS crisis deepens as 40% of GPs set to quit in next five years in mass exodus
The NHS faces a mass exodus of GPs – with 42% intending to quit, says a poll.
The number of doctors wanting out has increased by a third since 2014, and increasing workloads brought on by Tory austerity are blamed.
Prof Jeremy Dale, of Warwick Medical School, who conducted the poll, said: “The situation is bad and getting worse. GPs feel increasingly overworked and negative about the future.”
Some 59% of GPs said morale had worsened in two years and 49% had brought forward plans to leave, with 42% intending to go in five years, compared with 32% in 2014.
Royal College of GPs chair, Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, said: “We now have more GPs in training than ever but when more family doctors are leaving than joining, we are fighting a losing battle.”
Published in the journal BMJ Open, the poll included responses from 929 GPs in the West of England, of whom almost 700 were aged 35 to 64.
The Mirror has revealed almost 4,000 of 44,000 GPs, have retired early since 2014, despite a Tory election pledge to bring in 5,000 more by 2020.
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