GPs living in ‘climate of fear’, says new open letter
In its latest missive, Ivy Grove Surgery in the UK says doctors are too scared to speak out over lack of funds and unrealistic demand for fear of losing patients
A GP practice in the UK that fired off an open letter to difficult patients has described having an “interesting month” since the letter went viral.
The besieged British doctors have doubled down in a second lengthy missive, this time highlighting the plight of “dejected but silent” GPs who are trying to meet the needs of the worried well in an underfunded, overstretched system.
Ivy Grove Surgery in Derbyshire made headlines last month, with an open letter announcing it was axing its telehealth service, while blaming patient misuse for the doubling of GPs’ workload.
They complained patients were calling the surgery after waking up tired “or having vomited or having had diarrhoea just the once”.
