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Scottish government accuses of ‘setting up GP practices to fail’
A registration form and a stethoscope at a GP Practice

THE SCOTTISH government is “setting up GP practices to fail” with patient to doctor ratios “spiralling out of control,” Labour warned today.

Numbers of GPs across Scotland have continued to fall, despite an SNP pledge in 2017 to boost numbers by 800 in a decade.

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