A spokesman added: 'These findings support the experience of GPs that work pressure is growing under their present contract. 'A new contract is essential. The current one simply absorbs the extra ...

Some qualified GPs cannot find enough work even at a time of high patient demand for appointments, according to a doctors' union. The British Medical Association (BMA) says it has heard from locum ...

The study found that in 2015, GPs were contracted to work an average of 30 hours a week on average, delivering about 80 per cent of the total hours they would if they had all worked full-time.