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And warns against people relaxing the stay at home message. Everybody may be getting a bit stir crazy and there may be just a temptation to get out there, hang out, and start to break the regulations, and i just urge you not to do that. Please, please, stick with the guidance now. A move to get help to struggling businesses the scheme offering government backed loans will be expanded so more firms will qualify. The exams regulator rules that this years gcse and a level grades will be based on te...

SIR – Sarah Gough (Letters, January 23) describes what many see as the major problem with the NHS.

GPs have warned patients to stay away until the new year because of striking doctors.

Aware this is not an ideal world. broadening the professional team is really important. _ we have to look at the type of work that is being asked to provide - and that definitely needs a review. i also think we need . to review the resources going into general practice. the government says it is working hard support and grow the gp workforce, by boosting recruitment, addressing some of the reasons why doctors leave and encouraging them to return to practice. 0ne scheme sees doctors being offered...

More time to spend with more complex patients who have more complex needs. in an ideal world we i would have more gps. i think were all increasingly aware that this is not an ideal— world so broadening that multi—professional team| is really important. but we also have to look at the type of work that is being asked - of general practice provide, - and that definitely needs a review. and i also think we need to review the resources i going into general practice. the government says it is wor...

A negative experience and that is because we do not have the capacity to deal with the need to have less gps promise, a lot less coming through and lot messages from the secretary of state are not accurate and not a clear message of how many people are available. whilst resources are amazing, there needs to be the workforce to make sure that work is being done and that workforce is really hard to find and keep, particularly with the negative impression we are getting from the media on a daily ba...

>> for me its going to be interesting to see. i work in a busy urban emergency department that sees over half children with medicaid and so i think were going to have more and more insured children. im sure they will be coming to me as well. what i hope to see happen is that they will be able to access primary care physicians. this is going to bring p workforce issues that well need to discuss but i think the exciting thing is more children certainly more people, but in my case more children wil...