Poor Suffer Under New Gp Contracts Doctors Call for More Cash to Alleviate a Two-Tier Health Service That Penalises Poor People, Reports Stephen Naysmith

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FINANCIAL INCENTIVES to encourage GPs to work in deprived communities should be introduced to help tackle health inequalities, according to a leading doctor.

Dr Mairi Scott, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland, was responding to research showing that affluent areas were served by 11percent more GPs on average than poor ones.

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Poor Suffer Under New Gp Contracts Doctors Call for More Cash to Alleviate a Two-Tier Health Service That Penalises Poor People, Reports Stephen Naysmith

The findings, published last week in the British Medical Journal by Graham Watt, professor of general practi...

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