GP Recruitment Crisis Looms

A survey of GPs in Northampton has found that almost 1 in 10 would like to retire early, within the next five years. Some have told BBC Radio Northampton that low morale, long hours and increasing bureaucracy are all partly to blame.

BBC Radio Northampton reporter Elinor Cross has had unprecedented access to GPs and their surgeries and hears from Mark Barrowclough, a GP from Northampton, from Dr Carolyn Perryer from Delapre Medical Practice, and from Emma Clancy, a GP in Towcester.

Stuart talks to semi-retired GP Dr Tony Hillier from Blisworth who sits on the Local Medical Committee, and to Dr Darin Sieger , the chair of Nene Clinical Commissioning Group and a GP in Northampton.

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