Northumberland has lost 10 GP practices in the past 10 years - and those that are left are having to deal with thousands more patients, new figures have revealed.
The county currently has 36 practices operating 61 sites, 10 less than in 2013/14, while those practices serve 333,900 patients - an increase of 12,000 since the same period.
The figures, which were presented to Northumberland County Council's Health and Wellbeing Board last Thursday, also stated that 75% of surgeries were more than 30 years old, with the estate being described by the NHS as "stressed".
