{"id":156,"date":"2017-08-29T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/?p=156"},"modified":"2017-08-29T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T07:21:06","slug":"should-all-gps-become-nhs-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/2017\/08\/29\/should-all-gps-become-nhs-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Should all GPs become NHS employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a debate article in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/355\/bmj.i5064\">BMJ<\/a>, Laurence Buckman and I discuss the arguments for against GPs in England becoming NHS employees. Primary care in England\u2019s NHS is in crisis. Recruitment of GPs is difficult throughout England, with many practices reporting vacant posts; many GPs are considering retiring early, and others want to cut down on their clinical work. The problems faced by GPs are partly due to the contracts that general practices have to provide NHS services and the way secondary care is organised. These contracts encourage the NHS to transfer work to primary care with the expectation that GPs will pick up this work at little or no extra cost. Most GPs would have no problem with taking on such work if they were given time to deal with it during their current working week. If GPs had employment contracts similar to NHS consultants they could have job plans, with time allocated for clinical work and for activities such as administration, teaching, training, and research.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/355\/bmj.i5064\">BMJ website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a debate article in the\u00a0BMJ, Laurence Buckman and I discuss the arguments for against GPs in England becoming NHS employees. Primary care in England\u2019s NHS is in crisis. 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