Dr Ruth Abrams

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

It's always been like this.

We're gonna just keep keep doing what we're doing.

And

really for the system to kind of innovate and transform, there needs to be a a kind of switch towards a more conditional thinking and and that just means we're seeing it for what it is and also seeing it for what it could be.

And I think learning from other practices where this type of innovative workforce strategies are coming into play, where they are changing appointment times, they're, you know, celebrating different career models.

That really is where the change needs to start.

Yeah, I mean I think probably what we need to do here is situate it in a much kind of broader societal and historical narrative as well, in that we live in a very neoliberal society and so there's a very strong emphasis here placed on reduced state support and we see a kind of underfunding of public services.

What inevitably happens there is it becomes slightly easier to push back on the individual and i individualise and and put responsibility there.

what we start to see with that type of narrative and framing and societal positioning is that things like, say, gendered pay gaps become an individual responsibility down to the skill of an individual to negotiate their own salary or it positions burnout as the fault of the individual for not being able to cope.

And this is really damaging because it reduces kind of any type of collective action.

It fosters and relies on a sense of failure, which is perceived.

And this doesn't affect just women, it's it's everyone.

I I guess it's slightly stronger for women because again, the the social conditioning that we have, it means then

the organizations are quite constrained in what they can do s to support because it becomes much easier to just push those individualized solutions in isolation.

because there's so much short term thinking.

And I think it's really important to stress here that this is not the fault of anyone.

It's the environment that we now find ourselves in that we have to move beyond.

And and I guess one of the ways that we move beyond doing this is by talking about it and kind of pointing a finger at this is what we're living in right now.

you know, when we talk about the system, it's kind of naming and describing exactly what that is and why that's happening so that we can begin to have those bigger conversations about workforce retention and what does it look like to put in a systems level intervention or organizational level intervention.

And they're they're hard conversations to have, but it does it's not in a vacuum.

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