{"id":383883,"date":"2026-01-22T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:22:08","slug":"nhs-in-focus-gps-are-working-at-relentless-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383883\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS in focus: GPs are working at &#8216;relentless pace&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We can understand that frustration&#8217;published at 08:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Josh McLaughlin<br \/>Radio Sussex &amp; Surrey reporter, in Eastbourne<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the phone lines opening, I joined staff at Princes Park Health Centre in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a busy day: 30 patient calls came in at 08:30 GMT on the dot, and medical forms and the queue outside started filtering in soon after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By midday, the team had received 150 requests for in-person care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GP receptionist Ruby told me she had just started working this winter after graduating from university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Typically, people are<br \/>\nunderstanding because of the winter pressure, and it can be busy after<br \/>\nChristmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cSome people don\u2019t understand, and it\u2019s<br \/>\nfrustrating because we\u2019re patients ourselves, so we can understand that<br \/>\nfrustration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman with long dark blonde hair is sitting in front of a computer screen with a blue NHS lanyard round her neck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5559feaa-2241-4cbd-8142-b09f475288ce.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"821\" height=\"461\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We can understand that frustration&#8217;published at 08:57 GMT 08:57 GMT Josh McLaughlinRadio Sussex &amp; Surrey reporter, in Eastbourne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383883","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=383883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}