{"id":82628,"date":"2025-05-26T07:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82628"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:39:22","slug":"the-uk-has-gps-desperate-to-work-and-labour-wont-employ-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/26\/the-uk-has-gps-desperate-to-work-and-labour-wont-employ-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK has GPs desperate to work, and Labour won’t employ them"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you listened to Wes Streeting and the government, the problem with supplying more appointments in the NHS is all down to a shortage of GPs, and they are years away because of the time it takes to train them.<\/p>\n

Except that is not true. In fact, it is the exact opposite of the truth. As a letter from the British Medical Association<\/a> (the doctor's union, in effect) to Wes Streeting says:<\/p>\n

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What are they calling for? This:<\/p>\n

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That looks eminently sensible in the light of everything that the government says it wants to do. After all, why wouldn't you want to put newly trained doctors to work as GPs, which is what they have trained to be, when that makes the lot of everyone in the UK a bit better?<\/p>\n

Who knows what answer Wes Streeting might provide to that question, apart from 'Rachel says no'?<\/p>\n

What we do know is that the fear that the BMA highlights is real, and that is a damning indictment of Labour, its budgeting, its ability to prioritise, its ability to deliver on its promises, and its concern for people in the UK, including those it might employ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you listened to Wes Streeting and the government, the problem with supplying more appointments in the NHS is all down to a shortage of
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