{"title":"Workforce pressures prompt more Scottish GPs to resign their contracts.","authors":"Gareth Iacobucci","doi":"10.1136/bmj.j4489","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The number of patients in Scotland registered with GP practices run directly by health boards has nearly doubled in a decade because of the growing number of practices resigning their contracts, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Scotland has said.\n\nFigures released by the college show that more than 160 000 patients (2.8% of the total number) were registered with a “2c” practice in 2016. This is almost double the 83 290 (1.5% …","PeriodicalId":93911,"journal":{"name":"BMJ (Clinical research ed.)","volume":"358 ","pages":"j4489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/bmj.j4489","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"BMJ (Clinical research ed.)","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j4489","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The number of patients in Scotland registered with GP practices run directly by health boards has nearly doubled in a decade because of the growing number of practices resigning their contracts, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Scotland has said.
Figures released by the college show that more than 160 000 patients (2.8% of the total number) were registered with a “2c” practice in 2016. This is almost double the 83 290 (1.5% …