More than 90% of GPs reported experiencing considerable or high pressure from ‘increasing workloads’
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Increasing workloads 92.3%
Increased demands from patients 85.8
Having insufficient time to do justice to the job 85.3
Paperwork 82.6
Changes to meet requirements from external bodies 81.1
Long working hours 73.7
Dealing with problem patients 69.9
Dealing with earlier discharges from hospital 66.5
Unrealistically high expectation of role by others 63.7
Worrying about patient complaints/litigation 53.5