Dr Ruth Abrams

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Talking General Practice · How can we ensure women GPs thrive in general practice? · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

Some of these things do also affect men equally.

Not all of these things affect all women.

It's very complicated and and kind of like you're saying, that shift in role, whilst traditionally it's still not seen in general practice, in order to allow that shift to happen, we do need to now pay greater attention to, for example,

how men access paternity leave.

Just as a you know, a very kind of

quick example and I was having a conversation with a colleague about this yesterday who's doing some research into f female surgeons and

you know, in order for that balance and that recognition to come into the workplace, how we treat everyone and what flexibility means really needs interrogating because if you don't allow paternity leave for men, you push it back onto the woman.

Yeah, I mean I think the consultation point is probably the the biggest and I think it's the one that

Whenever I've had conversations about this research with women GPs themselves, it's really the the focal point because it's probably the most accessible one to change.

And so the simplest solution and one that I've heard other GP practices build in is to just simply either extend the appointment time for complex cases or distribute that workload across the entire team so that it does become more balanced.

And so that really requires people to

To pay attention to individual and team needs across the practice and help create that more equitable workload balance, bringing it out into the open for team discussion, not positioning it as a failure.

All of these things will help to retain the inherent meaning and job satisfaction and also just surface the assumptions about, oh, this person always takes these appointments, so therefore they can carry on with this.

Yeah, I mean this is something that we found in our evidence and I know that the RCGP are also doing a lot of work into hidden workload as well.

And I think this constitutes part of that idea.

Probably what needs to happen here is

the heralding and upholding of multiple different career options for both men and women and for these models to be visible, viable.

And I know that that sounds quite idealistic and I I'm a firm believer in there needs to be this as kind of aspiration.

Um, I think probably what we see in general practice a lot is this absolute thinking.

And what I mean by that is it, you know, this is how it is.

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