Newcastle and Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (NGCC) is aiming to entice more GPs to set up practices and remain in Gateshead.
The NGCC addressed Gateshead council’s Care, Health, and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committee and outlined the issues with GP retention. Dr Domininc Slowie, medical director of the NGCC, told councillors general practice has become an unattractive option for medical students over the last 20 years.
“Over the last 20 years there has been a relative disinvestment in general practice and primary care”, Dr Slowie told councillors.
