New RCGP chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne on tackling the challenges facing general practice
Talking General Practice
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What Are Your Key Priorities as Chair of the College?
You take over as chair of the college this weekend and you're taking over at what's an incredibly difficult time for general practice. You know, we're facing one of the worst workload and workforce crises that the profession has ever seen. I'm getting vibes, although perhaps not too surprisingly, that those 6000 additional GP's promised may not be coming after all. But it has to be a priority. And really we need to have more GP's on the ground. So if we're increasing the number of trainees, that's good. But people are leaving the profession faster than they're entering it. retention strategies needs to be something that we really need to work with,. HUE and
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