{"id":241943,"date":"2025-11-03T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241943\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:56:33","slug":"gp-surgeries-in-scotland-to-get-531m-for-recruitment-over-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241943\/","title":{"rendered":"GP surgeries in Scotland to get \u00a3531m for recruitment over three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The funding news comes two weeks after First Minister John Swinney announced plans to launch drop-in health services, which will be run by GPs and nurses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Initially, the Scottish government plans to roll out 15 of these sites, the first of which is due to be operational within the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinney said they would operate seven days a week, from noon to 20:00, to tackle &#8220;the 08:00 rush for appointments&#8221; putting pressure on surgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The locations for these sites have not yet been confirmed, but Swinney said they would be based in communities, &#8220;on your local high street, near your child&#8217;s school, or close to your workplace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) was sceptical over how these centres would be staffed, particularly as Scotland&#8217;s GP workforce has fallen in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The college&#8217;s vice chair, Dr Chris Williams, also said that Swinney&#8217;s promise to provide one million more appointments in a year was &#8220;not that large&#8221; compared to the current level of general practice activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the moment, a range of healthcare professionals &#8211; GPs, nurses and more &#8211; provide 720,000 appointments a week in Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funding news comes two weeks after First Minister John Swinney announced plans to launch drop-in health services,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-241943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}