GPs demand tougher action against patients who abuse them

A recent surge of negativity about GPs in the media and on social media “has spilled over into verbal and even physical abuse of us and our staff,” a GP told the BMA’s conference of local medical committees (LMCs) in York on 10 May.

Nicola Herron, a representative of Northern Ireland conference of LMCs, proposed that the General Medical Services (GMS) regulations be changed to enable a patient who abuses a GP or their staff, including verbally, to be removed immediately from a …