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NHS · HuddersfieldLucy Douglas is a salaried GP in Huddersfield and a member of the Anglo-French and Anglo-German Medical Societies. NHS backlog data analysis from May 2025 in England showed 7.4 million people were waiting for treatment, with 3.1 million waiting over 18 weeks and almost 200 000 waiting over 12 months for treatment.1 Data from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland show many patients experiencing similar delays in their respective countries.2–4 Acc…Read Article
The Planned Treatment Scheme (S2 funding): an alternative to long NHS waiting lists or private care
Cardiff, United Kingdom · CardiffJim Pink is a GP at Llanishen Court Surgery, Cardiff. Matthew Jones is a GP at St Isan Road Surgery, Cardiff. Since April 2004, the bulk of funding for GP surgeries in Wales is via the global sum in the General Medical Services (GMS) contract.1 The income an individual practice receives is based on a formula developed by Roy Carr-Hill in the early 2000s, which was designed to adjust funding for practices to account for varying clinical workload.…Read Article
The absurdity of GP funding in Wales
Germany · GermanyElke Hausmann is a GP, currently not working due to Long Covid. In this essay, I want to discuss how we understand the body, and how that can leave patients with Long Covid at the receiving end of judgements. I argue that we need to put judgements aside, and develop an approach that sees the body as neutral – a body changed by a virus that causes disease, no matter what the affected patients think or do. Our bodies have always been both our own …See the Story
