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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Martin Bagot

Surgeries shutting as burnt-out doctors see 45 patients a day in 'Uber-isation of GPs'

A hundred GP practices are closing every year because they do not have enough doctors to treat their catchment area.

The British Medical Association also said “realistically every GP practice should close its patient list” due to unsafe patient numbers.

The comments came at the launch of a joint campaign with ex-Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt calling on Boris Johnson to tackle the crisis in general practice.

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