A Ponteland GP is looking for ways to inspire the next generation of medical students to become community doctors - and fighting to address issues like staff burnout, workload and the entrenched health inequalities the North East faces.
Dr Lily Lamb, 40, is a GP at the Ponteland Medical Group, part of Northumbria Primary Care. She has also been awarded a prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellowship to carry out a PhD investigating how more medical students can be attracted to work in general practice.
Hexham-raised Dr Lamb told ChronicleLive that, while she had been lucky to work with a stable team in Northumberland, this was not the case for many doctors and that she'd seen colleagues struggle with the well-reported upon problems of recruitment and retention in primary care: Not enough young doctors want to be GPs, and too many experienced hands are finding the workload and burnout too much and heading for retirement.
