Uncanny similarity in issues facing global GP workforces: Always the underlying need to understand the value the generalist role brings to health services

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Uncanny similarity in issues facing global GP workforces: Always the underlying need to understand the value the generalist role brings to health services

22 November 2023

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Wednesday 22 November 2023, 03:30 AM

The GP specialty globally is far from hale and hearty – some countries are just gegetting started on growing the specialty while others are losing GPs to other specialties and retirement

The recent World Organization of Family Doctors, or WONCA, conference saw ‘GPs’ from 108 countries gather in Sydney. Despite many differences in their home-country systems, journalist Fiona Cassie found all were facing similar challenges in providing primary care services and in gaining recognition for the value of GPs. She reports on discussions with doctors from five countries – Norway, the Netherlands, Kenya, Azerbaijan and the Philippines

The Netherlands - Struggling to sell practices and fill GP training places, The full-time-equivalent workload for a Dutch GP is 56 hours a week, so we don’t have many working full time any more Closed books are a new prob, Dorien Zwart Netherlands 28 Oct 2023, Specialist GP Dorien Zwart

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