Fairygodmother
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Part time GPs are part of the problem as it costs the NHS the same to train a part time GP as a full time GP. There is the same issue with on going training.
I think making all GPs commit to full time employment for the whole of their working lives after training mitigates against mothers and children. Like all other students, these days medical students usually rely on loans to fund their training with maintenance grants and bursaries available to the least well off. By the time they’ce completed the five years of study to become a doctor they, too, will have forked out or gone into debt by a considerable amount.
It would be honest we’re the stats to count part time hours as a fraction of a whole, I agree. And greater funding for the NHS seems more than a necessity if we’re to avert the nightmare of private-public partnerships, private insurance for medical care and the inequalities of a system like that in the USA.