A severe lack of GPs has shut 800 practices in eight years, depriving millions of patients access to a family doctor, says the British Medical Association.
The BMA thinks each practice should close its patient list as each GP sees an average of 45 people a day, the previous safe maximum was 25.
Ex-Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is calling on Boris Johnson to tackle the crisis in general practice.
He said: “We’re moving towards the Uberisation of general practice where you see a different GP every time.”
BMA’s Dr Kieran Sharrock said: “On current trajectory, your local surgery may have to close. In the last eight years over 800 practices have closed.
"Two and half million patients have lost access to their family doctor.
"If the Government doesn’t act now every family who relies on the NHS will find basic healthcare under threat.”
Mr Hunt said: “The best thing about the NHS is having your own family doctor.
"We know from studies there’s a 30% less chance of a patient going to hospital and a 25% less chance of a patient dying if they have the same GP over a long period of time.”
Dr Sharrock said contracts with the NHS have three months’ notice so if one or two GPs fear numbers are unsafe and leave a practice, it may have to close.
Dr Sharrock added: “There are processes where practices going through a short term problem can close their lists for a period of time.
“But realistically every practice should close its list because we can’t take the workload we are already doing.
“If the pressure on GPs continues so they think it is unsafe, it can take one or two of them to leave and suddenly you can’t run the practice.
“We have a contract with the NHS and at any point, we can give three months' notice and say ‘actually we can’t run this contract anymore.”
