Not just another primary care workforce crisis …

Abstract

Irish and Purvis1 have written a useful article summarising the imbalance between GPs entering and leaving the GP workforce, and indicate that this imbalance is likely to worsen in the next few years. The problems that the deaneries face now are acute and have serious implications for future recruitment of GPs at surgeries, and hence the viability of clinical services. There are two other dynamics in play that make the situation even more challenging than they describe. First, many new roles are opening themselves up to GPs, and they currently sit somewhat uncomfortably alongside the traditional service roles of the general medical services and Personal …