BBCOne GP has said that she continued to work through fear of cancer as otherwise her patients were not seen due to staff issues worse than funding.
Doctor Emily Jones is not feeling under pressure alone, as a colleague in his South Wales surgery worries that she will make a mistake as she is looking at patients over the recommended daily safe limit due to financial pressures.
Some doctors claim that these issues are made worse by a “old” health funding model, which does not take into account how sick or bad surgery is the surgery catchment.
The UK government has said that it is reviewing the formula, while Welsh Parliament is looking at it as part of the future investigation of GPS.
“It pressures that I should not be ill,” Dr. Jones said.
The 37 -year -old man had taken away from his practice to have a problem and his doctor found a potential cancer lump in his stomach.
“My GP said I should go to the hospital directly,” he remembered.
“But I couldn’t do because I was the only doctor here, I could not close the surgery.
“It was very stressful that the afternoon was trying to keep walking. I was in pain but really had no other option.”
Dr. Jones has said that a funding formula for GP surgery in Wales and England did not have enough employees to cover it that day, who say anything that is no longer fit for purpose.
When there were more doctors the next day, Dr. Jones were able to participate in the appointment of the hospital when lump cancer was not found.
She has also felt terrible to participate in the appointments of the emergency hospital and conduct major operations as it has put a tension on her surgery in Cardiff.
Dr. Jones said a GP for eight years, “I hear a lot that you don’t think about the doctors getting sick, but I try to remind my patients that we are all human.”
Dr. Rebecca TownnerIn the city’s Heath region, the wheat road surgery currently has around 80 appointments for about 8,000 patients in its list and is waiting for the estimated four weeks for regular appointments.
Surgery has said that some employees are doing overtime every day to see many patients as soon as possible.
Dr. Rebecca Townner said, “You are patient after coming to the patient and apologize for the fact that they cannot get appointment.”
The 44 -year -old has said that she can see 30 patients in the morning, beyond the safe daily range of 25 suggested by the British Medical Association (BMA).
The BMA has said that some GPs are looking at more than 40 patients in a day because of an increased charge because some surgery claims that they cannot tolerate more doctors.
“Every day you worry that you are going to make a mistake,” Dr. The townner said.
“After the patient seems more risk to see and think of the patient after seeing the patient. We are fire and it is ending.”
She has admitted that the situation may be “demorling” and doctors know that she has considered leaving several times.
Dr. The townner said, “I cannot imagine doing anything other than being GP, but it is difficult to see how we can move forward at this time.”
The owners of the Whichurch Road Surgery have installed a hat on the “when possible” and claimed lack of funding because the way NHS pays GP surgery, it means that they have been unable to pay the same wages as other practices.
They say that they are unable to hire new employees, which have joined their charge and later the appointment for patients has increased the waiting time.
His practice manager of surgery said that he continued to work during his treatment for stage three osophageal cancer in an attempt to reduce the effect on patients.
47 -year -old Gareth Leukokk said, “I think things will deteriorate before it gets better.”
“We have a lot of doctors in autumn and unfortunately there is no job for them because practices cannot bear their wages.”
In Wales and England, GPS is paid primarily using a formula introduced in 2004, such as their patients being old and sick.
Campares have said that data Karr-Hil Formula The use is more than 25 years old and lose GP practices in towns and cities.
Doctors complain that the formula is not based on the current data, so when NHS allocates cash cash, it does not notice whether GP surgery serves a particularly sick or deprived population.
BBC Wales Research suggests that if the patient was paid per patient, instead of using Car-Hill Formula, it will receive an additional quarter of one million pounds in a year.
Depending on this measurement, the biggest drawback of any GP surgery in Wales will be less than just £ 445,000.
Dr. of Nafield Trust Bake Fisher said, “There is a systematically worse access to normal practice in poor parts of the country.”
“People who live in poor parts of the country constantly have less satisfaction with GP services and report more difficulty in accessing them.”
GP practices in Cardiff and Well Health Board are the most affected by the formula in Wales and about half of the welsh surgery claims that they are allocated less cash, as they say they need.
“If you are hundreds of thousand pounds bad, it does not matter how hard you do,” Dr. Matthew Jones said, who works in another surgery in Heath.
“The formula does not only work. It correctly shows what your GP workload is and the figures and data that they are using are from 1998 to 2001.”
The General Property Committee, The Body that represents the UK GPS, believes that the formula in Wales needs to be reviewed.
Chairman of BMA’s Welsh Committee, Dr. Gareth Olman said, “General practice is facing a crisis in Wales.”
The Royal College of General Practitioners have welcomed the “Long OverD” Review of the UK government as to how funds are given for GP surgery.
“Postcode of a patient and where they live, they should not determine the level of NHS care,” he said in a statement.
“It may not be correct that people in underprivileged communities – who often have more complex health requirements and are most benefited by health interventions – are less likely to achieve it, as their GPS time is even more thin.”
In Wales, Sendd’s Health and Social Care Committee is investigating the future of GPS that includes its funding models and current financial pressure.
Welsh government said in a statement, “Various elements of GP contract including Funding Formula will be considered part of the annual contract dialogue between Welsh Sarkar, NHS Wales and General Businessman Committee.”
