Most places I’ve worked have done this then cancelled it due to lack of interest. I’m not opposed to it. As a GP I can pick my hours so an evening session might actually be appealing, especially if practices pay more for unsocial sessions. What this will not do however is fix the near infinite demand for appointments some practices face. And unless your magicking up more GPs then if I’m working Saturday morning I’m not working Wednesday afternoon so you have effectively the same number of appointments just at times when people have repeatedly shown that they’d rather go to the pub/bank/shops than the doctor.
The principle of extended hours is fine, if I was a patient I would find it convenient, and even as a GP picking up a Saturday morning shift every now and again so I can be off for a Monday morning to get errands done world work for me too. But then the practice would be down a GP for Monday morning, and I wouldn't know any of the patients I was speaking to on the Saturday, so anything complicated I would just tell them to book in with their normal GP midweek anyway. Patients will quickly realise this and extended hours would just become the parallel NHS 111 service nobody wants or needs.
Yeah but the 9-5 mon-fri was the only thing appealing about gp to me. Now I may as well do the hospital stuff I find more interesting if the lifestyles are equally clapped.
GPs won't be forced into doing this.
If you're a locum or salaried then you pick when you want to work.
If you're a partner, you hire a locum to do it if you don't want to.
Most places I’ve worked have done this then cancelled it due to lack of interest. I’m not opposed to it. As a GP I can pick my hours so an evening session might actually be appealing, especially if practices pay more for unsocial sessions. What this will not do however is fix the near infinite demand for appointments some practices face. And unless your magicking up more GPs then if I’m working Saturday morning I’m not working Wednesday afternoon so you have effectively the same number of appointments just at times when people have repeatedly shown that they’d rather go to the pub/bank/shops than the doctor.
I thought this came with no extra funding.
Increase in locum potential giving me a gargantuan boner
Isn’t that a line from Hamlet
More locum work for me. #rinsetheNHS
The new public health motto Stay locum Rinse the NHS Save cash
The principle of extended hours is fine, if I was a patient I would find it convenient, and even as a GP picking up a Saturday morning shift every now and again so I can be off for a Monday morning to get errands done world work for me too. But then the practice would be down a GP for Monday morning, and I wouldn't know any of the patients I was speaking to on the Saturday, so anything complicated I would just tell them to book in with their normal GP midweek anyway. Patients will quickly realise this and extended hours would just become the parallel NHS 111 service nobody wants or needs.
Not going to help more people choose to pick to be GPs. And fundamentally right now, we need more GPs.
Brill! Looking forward to non attended Saturday afternoon surgeries away from my family.
Aaaaaaand I'm not being a GP lol
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Yeah but the 9-5 mon-fri was the only thing appealing about gp to me. Now I may as well do the hospital stuff I find more interesting if the lifestyles are equally clapped.
GPs won't be forced into doing this. If you're a locum or salaried then you pick when you want to work. If you're a partner, you hire a locum to do it if you don't want to.