Patients could be getting sicker and need more expensive treatment due to GP appointment difficulties, it has been claimed. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Wales said surgeries were buckling under the strain of rising workloads. It estimates 650,000 people in Wales found it difficult to get an appointment last year. The Welsh government said the number of GPs and spending on them has increased. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote We need to be available to see our patients roughly when they need us and that is not happening at the moment” Dr Paul Myres, chair Royal College of General Practitioners Wales But the RCGP says family doctors are struggling to cope with falling resources. By 2017, it says up to 800,000 people in Wales could find it difficult to secure a convenient appointment. RCGP Wales chair Dr Paul Myres, who represents 1,800 members from more than 2,000 GPs in Wales, said the worry for doctors was that some patients might not bother trying to secure an appointment. He said: Sometimes thats fine because many problems get solved of their own accord without anyone doing anything about it. Many conditions are self-limiting. But [it is] always a concern to us that people have difficulty getting access to us - that they delay their presentation until too late in the day and their condition then takes longer to treat. bbc/news/uk-wales-29147315
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:30:48 +0000
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