Helen Salisbury: Will additional roles save general practice?

I love being a GP, but right now it feels like an impossible job. Demand is growing, both in volume and complexity, so even though the days are getting longer, still leave work after dark. The pressure particularly acute now, as many patients who have sat at home with their symptoms worries for most of past year finally feeling confident enough to seek help. The UK does not GPs, us already choosing “less than full time” our surgeries.1 If day consists 12 or 13 hours, five week impossible. In absence …