Key findings from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) 2022 survey of GPs include:

68% of GPs say they don’t have enough time to adequately assess and treat patients during appointments

64% of GPs say they don’t have enough time during appointments to build the patient relationships they need to deliver quality care

65% of GPs say that patient safety is being compromised due to appointments being too short

34% say that the IT for their booking systems are not good enough

64% said their computer systems were not able to properly share information with hospitals 

75% of GPs said that encouraging specialists to refer patients to other specialists themselves where appropriate rather asking GPs to re-refer them would make a significant difference to GP workloads.

68% of GPs said that making back-office functions more efficient would make a significant difference to GP workloads

Over half of GPs (57%) said that their practice does not have access to the support and guidance to effectively integrate the new staff roles

74% of respondents to our survey said that their practice does not have sufficient physical space necessary to accommodate new staff

It is impossible for most GPs to manage the workload required in the time allocated, meaning on average they work 10 hours more a week than their contracted hours

42% of GPs say that they are planning to quit the profession in the next five years

80% of GPs expect working in general practice to get worse over the next few years, compared to only 6% who expect it to get better

https://www.rcgp.org.uk/representing-you/future-of-general-practice