"The
Local Medical Committee, the statutory representative body of all GPs, recently undertook a survey.
Dr John Grenville, of Derbyshire
Local Medical Committee, said trauma as mild as a minor crash could have started it growing.
The
Local Medical Committee, which represents the city's 1,000 GPs said the changes would allow them to provide a better service to patients by cutting red tape.
Birmingham
Local Medical Committee members sent a warning email to all the city's primary care trusts (PCT) on Tuesday just hours before one of the first confirmed cases in the UK was declared in Worcestershire and other suspected cases arose in Walsall and Birmingham.
Dr Ian Millington, secretary of Morgannwg
Local Medical Committee and a GP in Swansea, said, "We have an aging population of doctors who in some areas could retire.
Their organisation, Morgannwg
Local Medical Committee, claims non-emergency patients who need to be taken to hospital are too often left waiting at home or in doctor's surgeries.
She pledged the funding at the BMA Scottish
local medical committee annual conference in Clydebank, where doctors told how they are finding it hard to cope with increased demands on their time and how some practices have been left with no GPs, including one in the Health Secretary's constituency.
Dr Phil White, Secretary of North Wales
Local Medical Committee, said immediate action needed to be taken to ensure patients did not suffer.
Middlesbrough Council's health scrutiny panel will hear from Dr John Canning, secretary of the Cleveland
Local Medical Committee, at its next meeting on Monday to find out what the position is locally to see if any practices in the town are at risk of closure due to GPs retiring and whether or not Middlesbrough is experiencing any difficulty in recruiting GPs to the area.
Rob Barnett, chairman of Liverpool's
local medical committee (LMC), said GPs could miss out on essential medical infor mation without this first appointment.
But the
Local Medical Committee (LMC) says any agreement will depend on some performance targets being relaxed so GPs have time to carry out the injections.
Birmingham
Local Medical Committee members sent a warning email to bosses all the city's primary care trusts on Tuesday just hours before one of the first con- firmed cases in the UK was declared in Worcestershire and other suspected cases arose.