GPs on the brink

AN average of just one GP per 2,200 patients – one per 3,000 in some areas. More than a third of practices so overwhelmed that they have stopped taking routine appointments.

Already under strain before the pandemic, our GP system is in real danger of collapse.

Instead of sniping at each other, politicians, the NHS and medical unions must work together to recruit more doctors and radically improve working practices.

Without urgent remedial action, the traditional family surgery may soon become a thing of the past.