Family doctors overworked and fed up of red tape and box ticking’

Family doctors feel increasingly fed up, overworked, tied up in red tape and worried that “dubious” Government targets are stopping them treating needier patients, a survey has found. A poll by the British Medical Association (BMA), completed by 3,629 GPs working in England – around 10 per cent of the total – showed 86 per cent had suffered a drop in morale over the past year. More than 95% complained of an increase in “bureaucracy and box ticking” because of changes to GPs’ contracts which were the subject of a dispute between the Government and the BMA union. They imposed