MISLEADING media reports about GPs in England are fuelling abuse of doctors in Scotland’s biggest health board, a major medical organisation has claimed.
The Glasgow Local Medical Committee (GLMC), which represents GPs in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area, sent a letter to the city’s MSPs warning them family doctors were facing rising levels of abuse amid a chaotic situation in general practice.
The letter, seen by The National, said staff and doctors were facing aggression from members of the public because of a dangerous cocktail of “understandable anxiety and frustration”, “a lack of awareness of the position that General Practice is in” and “some misleading media reports particularly within the press in England over recent months”.
