Coasting GPs providing record number of patient appts, meeting all targets, supporting the 7.7million patients left waiting by hospitals Left with less funding by NHS England.

Hospital OPD Wrote a Med3 for a patient Took 30sec Contractual obligation + offloads unnecessary pressure from GPs + helps the patient

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Ben Leo Strangely, I took my wife for a check up at that time yesterday and we were seen on time and were in and out in 20 mins. Have you considered that there might have been a medical emergency that caused the clinic to start late? The NHS has its problems, our expectations are one of

And of course the one part of the system with no overspend is General Practice. We just go bankrupt and close….

GP access. An open and candid apology to all patients. You are about to see already difficult access get acutely worse. There are no mitigations against the NIC increase, no additional funding and the only way to pay for this is reduced service and likely half day closures

The similarities and comparisons with our GP services are astonishing. Complete lack of workforce, funding, planning and the public paying the consequences. There seems to be a deliberate intent to run down crucial front line public services

I’ve always said we won’t have a universal private GP service if I have anything to do with it I now think its inevitable and likely very soon as anything else is unsustainable, is harming patients, harming GPs and harming our staff, and Dept are not offering any meaningful help

Very important from our Scottish counterparts. We share very similar problems but are coming from an even worse position. Critical also to follow our safety guidance as we cannot allow the personal destruction of phenomenal colleagues

⁉️🗣BREAKING: 'How could I look at someone who has phoned their GP 115 times without success and say, ‘Yeah, but I’m giving another £80 million’?' 🔵Health Minister Mike Nesbitt is pressing ahead with a financial package for Northern Ireland GPs, despite the deal being

I have never, ever seen anything like this in all my years in the NHS and in medical politics. Astonishing, breathtaking, disrespectful and dangerous. I really fear for our future

Alan Stout Mike literally said yesterday that his GP saved his life. Demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the issue- many more practice closures to come…

Alan Stout Anyone in the future who ends up having to pay for their GP should go back to this moment. Pure malice in that today, shocking. 200000 consultations per week and still not enough!!!

Cool FM News Mike Nesbitt very confused. GP-'We are at breaking point&need more money to stand still' - MN-'well if u want money, i want to know what extra new services u will supply?' - GP-'you dont understand, we r failing, we need money to survive' - MN-'well i cant get though to my GP'. GP-'exactly??'

GPs in Northern Ireland are on their knees They are trying really hard to improve services for patients Yet the government declined a request for 11p per day per patient to improve services Who’s to blame for poor services? Simply it’s not GPs is it? Mike Nesbitt BMANI-GP

Cool FM News Mike Nesbitt My Mums a GP and she’s at work this week with a fractured humerus because she doesn’t want to let her patients down. Mike Nesbitt you’ve met her. This rhetoric you’re pushing is vile.

There are significant issues with GP services in Northern Ireland But 20% more patients per GP is a big one, the official statistics use headcount not Full-Time equivalent so is likely to be worse £168/patient/year is for everything In 🇮🇪 you’d get 3 appts only & nothing else

Alan Stout It’s a bit mad that the minister thinks he needs money to help solve the waiting lists capacity issue but doesn’t seem to think that logic might also apply to GPs that if someone is calling 115 times there might be a capacity issue that needs addressed?

But you can look at someone who has waited 7 years, in suffering, on a hospital waiting list, and say ‘yeah, I’m giving them ANOTHER £200 million for ANOTHER waiting list initiative!’

A bit mad is right!