Article 6PD7X NHS England workforce plan ‘needs many thousands more family doctors’

NHS England workforce plan ‘needs many thousands more family doctors’

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Denis Campbell Health policy editor
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Experts warn recruiting one GP for every 24 hospital consultants will not help increase out-of-hospital care

The NHS's landmark plan to tackle understaffing will recruit just one GP for every 24 hospital consultants, experts have warned, leaving England needing thousands more family doctors.

The Royal College of GPs has written to Wes Streeting protesting against what it says is a stark imbalance that threatens one of the government's key NHS goals.

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