article_snippet: An exodus of GPs leaving to work abroad or take early retirement means surgeries across England are in crisis, experts warned last night.
article_snippet: Some surgeries in Cumbria are so desperate for staff Some surgeries in Cumbria are paying locum GPs £850 a day to stand in, a new BBC Inside Out documentary has discovered.
article_snippet: a new BBC Inside Out documentary follows the Mail’s revelation last week how one practice, in Swinton, South Yorkshire, was making patients wait four weeks for an appointment.
article_snippet: Some surgeries in Cumbria are so desperate for staff Some surgeries in Cumbria are paying locum GPs £850 a day to stand in, a new BBC Inside Out documentary BBC Inside Out has discovered (file photo)
article_snippet: The situation has become so dire that 1,063 GPs are needed just to return to the patient-to-doctor ratio of 2009, according to separate figures released by the House of Commons Library.
article_snippet: But many doctors now say they are dismayed by the volume of paperwork, the demands of the ageing population and the insufficient funds given to surgeries by the Government.
article_snippet: Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘David Cameron promised to put GPs at the heart of the NHS – but instead caused a new GP recruitment crisis.
article_snippet: It is getting harder and harder to get a GP appointment as a result.