Supply of doctors
Sir—The Minister of Health has announced that there will be 1000 unemployed doctors by the middle of the decade. I would like to know on what grounds the Minister makes this assumption? The only answer I can think of is that the Government is going to make them unemployed. Is the Government abandoning its free enterprise system in favour of protectionism of those medical practitioners who serve 1500 patients or fewer? Does the Minister realise <that some areas are served by a general practitioner to every 4000 to 5000 residents? Perhaps the Minister is not aware of some of the real health issues — the undersupply of doctors in rural and the lower socio-econ-omic suburbia, the extensive hospital waiting lists, the badly needed extension of medical care into the local communities. — Yours, etc., CHRIS HAYWARD. August 26, 1980.
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