'GP patient lists must shrink'
HUNDREDS of patients must be cut from GPs' practice lists to allow doctors to spend more time dealing with complex illnesses, a conference will hear next week.
The British Medical Association (BMA) event will be told list sizes of up to 1,800 need to be slashed so that GPs can spend more time with patients.
But doctors will say income must not be cut with the number of patients, and extra funding should be given to allow practices to take on more GPs to deal with a growing workload.
The Scottish Government said the number of GPs in Scotland now stood at an all-time high.
Dr Alasdair Sneddon, a GP in Buckhaven, Fife, will raise the issue of large patient lists at the BMA's Scottish local medical committee conference in Clydebank.
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