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Stressed doctors quit commissioning roles after just six months

Dozens of GPs have resigned from their new commissioning roles less than six months after the Tory-led shake-up of the health service, according to the Daily Mirror.

Dozens of GPs have resigned from their new commissioning roles less than six months after the Tory-led shake-up of the health service, according to the Daily Mirror. The doctors were given control of two-thirds of the annual £100 billion budget in one of the biggest ever NHS reforms. But many since April have found they cannot cope with the extra bureaucracy involved with commissioning work while also looking after patients. Reforms meant the 151 primary care trusts were replaced by 211 Clinical Commissioning Groups, intended to be led by GPs. But alarming new figures, obtained by Pulse magazine, show one in

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