Satisfaction with GPs has plummeted from 68% in 2019 to 38% in 2021. Unlike hospitals, general practice is a business and the average GP partner earns £144,000. I think GPs have an enormous workload which is increasing at the moment. They're still working very hard and facing these increasingly large numbers of very frustrated patients. And as it gets harder and harder to see your GP, satisfaction with them is falling.
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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