Exclusive: Family doctors have switched to providing far fewer in-person appointments
- GPs in poor parts of England are paid £5,500 less a year than in wealthy areas, study finds
Patients’ satisfaction with GP services has collapsed in recent years as family doctors have switched to providing far fewer face-to-face appointments, new research has revealed.
The proportion of patients seeing a GP in person has plummeted from more than four-fifths (80.7%) in 2019 to just under two-thirds (66.2%) last year.
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