One in 10 GP surgeries has serious issues

One in 10 family doctors’ surgeries inspected since April have serious issues such as a lack of availability which need to be addressed, according to the new chief inspector of GPs. Prof Steve Field, who took up the post at the start of this month, told a conference that 10 per cent of the 600 practices inspected since April are not up to standard, according to the Daily Telegraph. He is currently overseeing an audit of the nation’s 7,607 GP surgeries, with inspectors scheduled to visit every practice in the country over the coming two years. Prof Field, the NHS’s