Scheme to attract trainee doctors to England’s deprived areas at risk, GPs say | Inequality
The scheme that helps attract trained doctors to work in the economically deprived areas is the risk of eliminating NHS EnglandThe largest membership body warned for family doctors.
The TERS is created in 2016 to help attract the trainee GPS To work in the disadvantaged areas of England by offering a one -time batch of 20,000 pounds.
Last year, the scheme had about 700 places available, and since its launch it has attracted more than 2000 GPS training in societies with the poorest health results.
The Royal College of GPS (GPS) said NHS England.
RCGP said this would make it difficult to recruit GPS to work in areas where patients are already facing defects compared to the richer areas.
He added that although doctors are in a state of insufficiency in almost all regions in England, and that there is a workforce crisis at the UK level, the situation is especially sharp in the disadvantaged areas.
The Kingson family doctor usually takes 1800 patients, while GP in Kingston is expected to cover Hull, one of the most deprived places in England, this number is twice as much, according to the body.
GP practices in areas with the highest levels of deprivation on an average of 300 more patients for each GP than those in the wealthiest areas, which can lead to a long -term disease.
The areas with the largest number of places available through the TERS scheme in England last year were Durham, Billy Wadi, Diosbury, Ponteftute, Tekfield and Sherwood Forest.
The college is concerned that the scheme’s financing is reduced after two GP planners have been dismantled in the last fiscal year, including the General Practic Fellowship Program and the Supportive Administration Plan.
“The areas that will be more difficult than losing this scheme are already facing disturbing defects, with social and economic deprivation that affects patients’ health. The presence of GP teams is fixed and durable that can build relationships Confidence with patients over time, which really understands that their problems can make a big difference, which reduces admission to hospitals in emergency situations and reduce death rates.
“The government says it wants to bridge the gap at the expectation of healthy health, not to expand it. But if we lose plans like this, there is a dangerous danger that increases the exacerbation of the devastating inequality between patients because of the place where they are born and live in the country.
“Ters GPS not only brings these societies, but also encourages GPS from their career life who may be from these areas not to move away but rather plays a major role in their societies. It brings a great value to each of the patients in the disadvantaged societies and the global positioning system (GPS ) Those who care for them.
A NHS spokesman said: We have made great progress in attracting GP trainees to areas in the country that was traditionally difficult to recruit and we are completely committed to ensuring that all regions of the country have a number of GPS they needed.
“Each penny of taxpayers will provide the best possible impact for patients, and the NHS workforce budgets should still be announced in 2025/26 after the publication of planning guidelines and NHS state this week.”
