Patient safety at risk from high workloads, GP leader warns

Nearly three-quarters of GPs say patient safety is being compromised by their workload (Alamy/PA) -

Patient safety is being compromised by high workloads in GP surgeries, a doctors’ leader has warned.

Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), said doctors were facing increasing demand and could not provide the care they want to.