Just 38 per cent are happy with the service from family practices – with more unsatisfied than satisfied for the first time.
The approval rating for GP services plummeted during the pandemic, from 68 per cent in 2019 to the lowest level since polling began in 1983.
It's hardly suprising, given their woeful performance during covid...
The findings come from the 2021 British Social Attitudes survey, which also found public satisfaction with the NHS as a whole has fallen to the lowest level in a quarter of a century.
Ditto! But what about all that hero worship and clapping?
Dan Wellings, senior fellow at the King’s Fund, which analysed the results along with the Nuffield Trust think-tank, said the NHS enjoyed a ‘halo effect’ during the pandemic – with patients supportive but unsatisfied – but this fell away last year as other parts of society opened up.
In other words, the majority of people realised they'd been conned. And the ones we really should have been clapping were bin-men, plumbers, and Tesco shop workers.
Professor John Appleby, chief economist at the Nuffield Trust, described the results as ‘shocking’.
Really, prof..?
Professor Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said: ‘We are extremely disappointed and saddened by these findings, which reflect a service working under crippling staffing and resource pressures during the pandemic.’
Funny, you seemed to have enough doctors and nurses to perform Tik-Tok videos...
Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said staff have worked ‘flat out’ treating 300,000 patients in hospital with Covid, administering vaccines and delivering routine care for millions of people.
And regularly popping up on Twitter, radio and the MSM to whine about 'Toree cutz' at the drop of an invitation, don't forget that takes time, too...
