Exhaustion taking its toll

We called it The Big 20 Survey: The Year-End Wrap and sent it to everyone who receives our email newsletter Daily Triage. Most opened, many clicked and 122 hardy souls completed the survey. The self-selecting survey ran from the day pay parity funding was announced (but did not include general practice), 28 November, to 2 December. About three-quarters of responses were from GPs, the remainder being from nurse practitioners, practice managers, health officials, allied health staff, secondary care clinicians and others. Many supplied additional comments as well as ticking the boxes. Martin Johnston describes what was revealed