maddyone
No, we don’t have enough GPs! Nor do we have enough doctors at all. It is not the fault of GPs that because some work part time that there are not enough appointments, it’s the fault of government for not training sufficient doctors.
Some GPs work part time (so do some hospital doctors) because they have young children. Others work part time because they have other roles as someone up thread said. My own daughter has two roles, she works as a GP and in the ED (A+E Dept) in New Zealand. When she lived here she worked as a GP and as a regional manager ensuring the delivery of services across the south eastern corridor. She worked one day a week in that role and was instrumental to the setting up of the vaccination centres across that area during the Covid vaccination roll out.
Agreed, any yet. All calculations about the number of doctors required were done on them working full time, and doing on call at night and week-ends on a rosta. If working part-time, and other doctors required for doing night/week-ends cover, suddenly you need twice as many...
That does not mean I don't support young mums working part-time at all, but it is the reality. And as said above, a large number of GPs and agency doctors, choose to work part-time to have time for family, golf, etc. I can't blame them, having had our family life seriously affected by GP OH and dad working all hours of the day, + 1 night in 3 or 4 ON TOP (not instead).