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Scottish Government GP plan failing to deliver

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A Scottish Government agreement with GPs to improve general practice has failed to deliver on several of its commitments. The 2018 General Medical Service (GMS) contract aimed to address the financial pressures and growing workloads facing GPs, and to improve patients' access to care.

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Team Withdraw from Take Over Plan For Southern Machars Practice

A PROCESS to appoint new medical service providers in the Southern Machars has been paused – after the team originally set to take on the contract withdrew. NHS Dumfries and Galloway will continue to run the practice directly in the interim, after a group of GPs operating as Blue Lotus decided to step back from a plan to take over the practice next month. Head of Primary Care Services Linda Bunney said: “We’re obviously disappointed that th…

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GP plan ‘failing to deliver’

A Scottish Government agreement with GPs to improve general practice has failed to deliver on several of its commitments, says spending watchdog Audit Scotland. The 2018 General Medical Service (GMS) contract aimed to address the financial pressures and growing workloads facing GPs, and to improve patients’ access to care. However, seven years on: the estimated number of whole-time equivalent GPs has fallen pressure on general practice has incr…

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