The workforce of general practitioners in Australia is in crisis

Fatigue, heavy workloads and greater dissatisfaction with their jobs - almost a third of G-Ps in Australia say they will stop practising in the next five years.

File photo dated 10/09/14 of a GP checking a patient's blood pressure. The majority of GPs are seeing patients over and above the "safe level" on a daily basis, a new survey suggests. Some 60% of family doctors say they see an average of 26-40 patients every day, according to a new survey by GP publication Pulse. Issue date: Monday August 21, 2023.. See PA story HEALTH GPs. Photo credit should read: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire Credit: Anthony Devlin/PA/Alamy

Fewer than half of general practitioners in Australia would recommend the profession to their junior colleagues.

More than 70 percent of them feel exhausted.

And nearly a third said they plan to cut back or stop altogether in the next five years.

These are just some of the worrying figures to emerge from a new report from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. The

2023 'Health of the Nation' report shows dissatisfaction among Australian general practitioners is rising - and the consequence is a reduced number of people willing to work in the profession.

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