'It's just another sticking plaster policy' - despair and fatigue as GPs given more waiting time targets
GPs in Greater Manchester have reacted with despair after the new Health Secretary announced plans demanding patients be given an appointment within two weeks.
Zahid Chauhan OBE is a Labour councillor and GP in Oldham. Speaking to the M.E.N he said the plans failed to address the underlying issues in the sector, such as low morale and a shortage of GPs. "The whole system is broken." "They need to look at the reason for having the GP system," he said. "Patients don't just contact me because they are ill, they are contacting me because their surgery has been delayed by the hospital or because of the pressure on the social care system.
A new telephone system which will mean patients are not automatically cut off if there is no-one available to take their call is also set to be introduced under the proposals. Patients will be told their place in the queue and asked a few questions or offered information about practice opening times while waiting.
"There is a huge bashing of GPs." He said: "It is not more targets the NHS needs, it is more doctors.
"Every government comes in and proposes a new plan which is not actually new. It's all just buzzwords. Instead of putting a sticking plaster on, there needs to be a long term plan." Another said: "Two weeks? No point going to an appointment if it's in two weeks time. This is not a third world country and the government need to stop pretending that it is. We pay our bit to the NHS and I bet most of us try everything we can before actually ringing the doctor."
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