Migration and GP shortage makes it harder than ever to find a doctor: Patients registered with each practice soar by up to a third in three years
The number of patients registered with each GP practice has soared by up to a third in three years, figures reveal.
Surgery list sizes are rocketing due to the effects of migration and a shortage of family doctors.
Understaffed practices are having to close and their patients are being taken on by those nearby, adding to the pressures.
Figures obtained by the Mail show the average surgery in England now has 7,521 patients on its books, a rise of seven percent since 2013.
But in the worst-hit areas the average surgery list size has swelled by 31 per cent in three years.
They include Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in Nottinghamshire, where the number rose from 9,350 patients in 2013 to 12,227 patients in 2016.
The small district has been affected by the closure of three GP surgeries, which meant the neighbouring practices had to take on all the extra patients.
No comments:
Post a Comment