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Article: One in six GPs to retire within two years
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- May 14, 2006
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ONE IN SIX family doctors is poised to quit the National Health
Service in the next two years, virtually wiping out the increase in
the number of general practitioners since 1997.
More than 7,000 of the workforce are planning to retire early or
to leave by 2008 in an exodus that the British Medical Association
(BMA) says will create huge problems for grassroots medical care.
Many are thought to have delayed retiring until now in order to
benefit from huge salary hikes and contract changes. Those who are
preparing to leave have benefited from three years of increased pay
that have put earnings up by an average of 30 per cent.
Most GPs now earn six-figure salaries and, as revealed recently, ...