GP surgeries are under increasing pressure – and face to face appointments are in high demand

To try and ease some of the workload, a new campaign to recruit 800 GPs over the next 5 years is underway.

Doctors are facing daily abuse and having to apologise for system-wide failings, according to the outgoing chair of BMA Scotland.

Lewis Morrison warned patients are being let down and the healthcare sector is hurtling towards a staff-retention crisis.

It comes as a new scheme to recruit eight hundred GPs from home and abroad within five years is launched. Here’s our political reporter Laura Alderman.

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