We appreciate many of our patients may have heard about ‘GP Collective Action’ on the news and have concerns. Across England it is becoming increasingly difficult to get an appointment or see the doctor of your choice. GPs are taking on more work from the hospital alongside managing a growing aging population with more complex health problems, all on a background of longstanding underfunding from the government.
We want to reassure our patients that we are not on strike, we are working as hard as ever and have not opted to change the number of appointments we provide or how our patients access care with us. Most of the actions we have chosen to take involve how we interface with other parts of the NHS.
We know access to appointments and GP services is frustrating and we want to be able to provide you with the best healthcare we can. We believe fighting for a better deal for GP surgeries that will protect them and prevent them from facing closure is the best way to do this.
We hope we can count on your support to help save general practice and improve the resilience of general practice as we move forward. GPs are on your side.
Dr Sai Ramanathan, Dr Adwoa Yeboah, Dr Rushikesh Trivedi & Dr Shainthavi Sivapalan.
The Partners at Parkfield Medical Centre