GP workloads are becoming unmanageable and can’t meet rising demand in the NHS

An analysis from the Nuffield Trust shows that GP figures are dropping due to untenable pressures on the workforce leading to fewer doctors seeing more patients with repeated Government pledges to boost numbers falling flat. Figures show that across the UK, the number of GPs relative to the size of the population has fallen in a sustained way for the first time since the 1960s. The fall in the number of GPs has been particularly marked in certain regions of England such as North West London and the East of England. These regions also have the lowest total number of GPs per 100,000 people, whereas Scotland