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Too many entering NHS training, not enough GPs.
The chief of the National Health Service has said that over the past ten years the NHS recruitment strategy essentially doesn’t make sense and has even described as ‘crazy’ by Mr. Stevens. The situation has been that four times as many people including graduates are entering doctor training compared to those who are actually going into GP jobs. The NHS blames lack of resources stating that they don’t know if they will have enough doctors at any one time.
According to the article, Responding to questioning by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today (Monday), Mr Stevens said ‘there clearly are substantial pressures’ on the GP workforce which mean that NHS England has to ‘make coming into GP training more attractive, including attractive relative to hospital medicine’.
It seems that GP recruitment timescales aren’t accurate and that the current HNs is being put under pressure as a result of previous mistakes. The recruitment strategy basically led to three and four times more hospital assistants than doctors and the current NHS chief says this was a major error.
When answering questions to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Mr Stevens said: ‘My personal point of view is that one of the things that has driven that is the way that the European Working Time Directive has been implemented. I think it has had the effect of sucking in doctors into hospitals to create legal rotas and to some extent training has been the tail that has wagged the dog.’
This comes as it is revealed that around 40% of doctor training positions aren’t being filled.