GP to patient ratio ‘not sustainable or even manageable’, says RCGP

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By Sarah Lowden

Patient safety is being “compromised” by GPs’ excessive workloads, the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned.

In a survey of more than 2,000 RCGP members, three-quarters (76%) said that pressures in general practice were compromising the standard of care their patients were receiving.