WE should try to reduce the pressure on our GPs. A lot of doctors were in general practice 30 and 40 years ago when, like today's practitioners, they were poorly paid.
They were exploited and unappreciated by that Government of that day, like they are today, but here the similarity ends.
Those doctors loved their work and were relatively free from red tape, actually had time to go home for lunch but, above all else, were trusted and respected by their patients.
Today, doctors face an intolerable workload and the humiliation of being the scapegoat where things go wrong.
This Government's policy of trying to buy new GPs on the cheap, or to bribe old GPs to stay on, is fundamentally flawed
SIDNEY CULLIS, Worcester.
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