There are 9% more consultants and 15% more junior doctors than the were in 2019, but 2% fewer fully trained GPs. This is obviously a really big problem everywhere; it seems to be particularly an issue in poorer places. Places like Mountain Ash,. which have lower numbers of GPs, but also a lower standard of education. So it's harder for patients to treat themselves. And also, as you said, contributing to this ongoing crisis in the NHS.
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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