Aberdeenshire GP practice with 25,000 patients ends NHS contract after struggling to hire doctors

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Patients who use Inverurie Medical Practice in Aberdeenshire have been reassured there is no need to change their practice or 'take any other action at this time'.

A Scots GP practice which provides care to more than 25,000 patients is to terminate its contract with the NHS.The contract with NHS Grampian will come to an end on 7 September.

Dr Iain Innes, partner at the practice, said:"This has been an extremely difficult decision for the partners, however, we cannot continue to provide the level of care we would wish to without recruiting new GPs to the practice. "We have explored every avenue to recruit with positivity but there simply are not enough trained GPs out there.

"We have also tried to recruit to a variety of other roles to support patient care at the practice, but again we have struggled to get the people we need."and Social Care Partnership will be responsible for the continued delivery of primary care services and has pledged to take on the practice itself if new operators cannot be found to run General Medical Services.

Patients will be kept informed throughout the process and no job losses are expected at the practice.

 

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Doctors and dentists are gonna all be private fairly soon it’s just the start where eventually it’ll be private healthcare, very high insurance premiums the poor can’t afford but hey who cares

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Make sure you don’t mention your British Brexit whatever you do.

Private GP work is far more lucrative

Highest taxed part of UK Not going to make it easy to recruit highly paid jobs especially when there is a shortage

Plenty of doctors at Dover ......

They waited till after the leadership election to announce this

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