Christopher Fairhurst
16 Aug 2017 · Coroner Lisa Hashmi · Manchester (North)
The coroner's concerns
1. shortage of General Practitioners
“There is a shortage of General Practitioners (GPs) as a result of recruitment and retention problems. Surgeries are working with only 50% (or less) of their required establishment. This puts patients at risk and places unmanageable workloads upon those GPs who are in post.”
2. inadequate GP training duration
“GP training GP trainees currently undertake a 3 year training programme. The overall view of - the profession is that this is inadequate and ought to be no less than 5 years in order to ensure safe standards of care in general practice”
3. increased referral thresholds for autism and ADHD services
“Both adult and children's Autism and ADHD/ADD Psychiatric and Psychology services are currently struggling to cope with increasing demand for this area of mental health/neurodevelopmental care provision. The 'threshold' for referral and/or treatment has therefore been intentionally increased in order to try and address the problem.”
Responses
No published response was found on judiciary.uk.