Some 8,000 members – or 22% – of the current fully qualified workforce are over 55 and 10% are 60 or over, according to party analysis of NHS figures.
Some 8,000 members – or 22% – of the current fully qualified workforce are over 55 and 10% are 60 or over, according to party analysis of NHS figures.
We’ve spent far too long underpaying/funding new doctors, and coasting on the fact that people still want to push themselves for a well respected position in society (or genuinely want to help).
As it stands now though, the only newly qualified GPs we retain are the ones who don’t want to move to Australia. And the ones we do have are buffeted about by locum rates to patch the holes.