One in three GPs in England do not work in NHS, says BMJ study | NHS
In the UK, one out of all three GPs does not work on NHS, increasing numbers are trying to move abroad or become a special contractor and deepens the difficulties of patients to make an appointment.
According to a study published in the UNJ, although it is qualified, the proportion of family doctors who do not provide care through NHS increased from 27% to 34% in 2015 last year.
This means that approximately 20,000 GPs that can work in health care have been “disappeared ve and did not do so despite the unseen maintenance demand and many government initiatives to try to increase the GP numbers.
A total of 58,548 GPs in the UK were in the General Medical Council (GMC) at the end of last year, while only 38,626 of them were in general practice – 19,922 difference.
The Patient Association said that the findings were “deeply sad” for patients who have frequently disappointed until the time required to meet with a GP.
Researchers, GPs heavy workloads, increased demands from the patients they encounter, have very little time to look at the patients and NHS’den increased decreases from the family doctors who fueled the burnout, he said.
Böyle Although there is a pleasant increase in the number of GP on paper, this report is deeply sad for patients with disappointment and worries when trying to reach the GP appointment.
Rachel Power, General Manager of Patients Association, said, “Long waiting, fragmented care and delayed diagnoses are at risk at risk.”
According to researchers led by Luisa Pettigrew from the London Hygiene and Tropical Medicine School, the intense pressure of the family doctor means that the newly qualified GPs did not participate in NHS after the education of the newly qualified GPs ended or leaving the general practices at the beginning of their careers.
The financial cost of GPs leaving NHS is very large. Researchers say it costs 430,540 £ to train in full -qualified GP’s undergraduate and graduate education years.
The study says: “In 2024, the gap between GMC licensed and NHS general application GPs represented an estimated investment by £ 8.6 billion and £ 13.1 billion, but this figure will be less for the UK after setting up. [the presence of] International graduates. “
Findings Researches published by GMC last monthOrganizing doctors in the UK. In recent years, GPS planning has found great increases in planning to move abroad, to work specially or to abandon the medical profession completely.
For example, the GPS ratio in the UK, saying that they will move abroad and increased from 10% to 21% last year to practice medicine in medicine.
Similarly, it increased the period they worked as a private GP or a special GP, which said they would start working specially, from 23% to 29% in 2024 in 2019 – in general, more than the tendency between doctors, 23% said they planned this transition.
And the Oran, such as abandoning the UK medical profession completely, communicating with a employer, resorting to non -clinical roles or starting to retire, the Oran rose from 4% to 15% in 2019 in 2019.
Female GPs with official NHS labor data are likely to be abandoned, especially in the Southeast and Southeast, between the ages of 30-49, especially in London and Southeast.
The researcher also said that the departure of the GP from NHS threatens the government’s plans to move too much care of hospitals to society and create new “neighborhood health services”.
GPS Royal College President Prof Kamila Hawthorne, findings, in recent years, despite the record number of new qualified doctors who have started the GP training in the UK, NHS’nin family doctors can not keep the new recruitment of the new recruitment, “he said.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting should focus on helping the GPs hold on NHS and focus more than expanding NHS by renewing the long -term labor plan.
The Ministry of Health and Social Care did not comment on direct findings.
“In order to reversal more than ten years of negligence in primary care, to hire more than 2,000 extra GPs last year, to increase a record of £ 1 billion, and to finance vital raising against surgeries and to interrupt bureaucracy.
“July 2025 has seen the highest number of headcode of full -quality GPs and patient satisfaction is increasing from GP services.”
