With the Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement that GPs should be available for seven days a week, this news have not been a good thing for the GPs.

According to the announcement, around 5,000 GPs is said to be recruited. However, many general practitioners are now leaving their practice leaving this much under speculation whether the defined number could be recruited or not.

The chairman of the British Medical Association’s GP committee, Dr Chaand Nagpaul has said GPs are already in the verge of shortage to uphold the current demands, they could not possibly adopt to this new deal proposed by the PM.

Dr. Nagpaul is simply highlighting the pressures and current situation faced by the general practitioners. He even slammed the government by giving a statement that promising to recruit 5,000 GPs by 2020 when losing 10,000 at the same time was just their stupidity. And, one health spokesperson has said made a statement pointing that this view is very negative. Further stressing that, thousands of general practitioners have already begun to provide access to their patients seven days a week.

Another downfall to this seven day working policy is it can damage the quality of health care and reduce the availability for the elderly patients. On the other hand, the bright side to this policy is patient could always have access to the GPs whenever they need but in the cost of continuous burnout suffered by them.

This seven day access is a tough challenge for all the general practitioners as they are the ones who will suffer from continuous workload. That is why there needs to be various new approaches that would help to reduce the work burden on them. And, at the same time, there should be no effect on the patients care so that there will be win-win situation for everyone.