Nick Bostock

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Talking General Practice · Is the 10-year plan on track, GP premises challenges, job shortage for new GPs · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

So, although funding is welcome, this is very much not on the scale general practice needs.

Last year, BMA polling found that half of GPs said their practice premises were not fit for purpose now.

And eighty-three percent said their premises were not fit for future needs.

And then three quarters said they didn't have room to train new GPs.

So I mean, to be fair, on that point, n not having room to train new GPs, perhaps this new funding has created the space for additional appointments, additional rooms, it may have gone some way towards creating some of that space.

But in any case, soon after the current government took office,

I remember that Lord Darcy, in a report that he produced at the behest of West Streeting at the time, uh he said that a fifth of the GP estate predates the NHS.

So that's the scale of the challenge.

And investment in upgrades on the scale being offered at the moment just looks unlikely to go far enough.

The survey I wrote about found that two-thirds of UK doctors and three-quarters of GPs now have portfolio careers.

And there wasn't a GP-specific figure on this, but across all doctors, there was a really significant rise in the proportion working in portfolio roles.

Lots of GPs, like you said, have always worked in portfolio careers, have mixed things up because it can allow them to mix.

mix working with patients, with research, teaching or specialist work.

And often, as you touched on, it's exactly that ability to mix things up that GPs say makes the job interesting, keeps them happy.

The polling I looked at from financial service provider called Wesleyan also found that half of GPs are doing some private work.

So we're not just talking about teaching or research.

This is also about work outside the NHS.

And that can reflect a mix of factors such as dissatisfaction with pay, the rise of private, often remote GP services that are looking for NHS-trained GPs to work for.

Them, as well as potentially a lack of available work in NHS roles.

And that's some of the stuff that Kimberly was touching on earlier.

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