Government Fails to Recruit Any GPs Under Multi Million Pound Scheme

A Scottish Government initiative to hire more GPs to NHS Dumfries and Galloway has attracted no new doctors in the two years since it was launched.

It has been revealed that the GP Recruitment and Retention Programme, unveiled in 2015, has only delivered 18 new doctors nationally.

The information was published following a parliamentary question by shadow health secretary Miles Briggs.

Ministers announced funding of £2.5 million in the summer of 2015, with the aim of securing more family doctors in rural and deprived areas.

This is following recent indications that there will be a shortage of over 800 GPs within the next few years.