Up to 1000 new GPs face unemployment this year, BMA warns

The BMA has warned the government that as many as a thousand GP registrars could be left without a job when they qualify later this summer unless urgent mitigation is taken.

In a letter to the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, the chairs of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee for England and its sessional and registrars committees warned that the unemployment crisis facing the profession would deepen when GP registrars qualify in August.

To tackle the problem, the letter said, the government must provide ringfenced funding directly to general practices to allow them to hire newly qualified and underemployed or unemployed GPs, it said.

The BMA …