NHS data highlights a huge inequality in the level of GP provision across Sittingbourne, Sheppey and Faversham
Shockingly with less than half the population of Sittingbourne, Faversham has more GPs. Sittingbourne has GP ratios exceeding 10,000 when the national average is just 1,700 patients per GP and some surgeries have less than one full-time equivalent GP.Also concerning is that Initiatives by the NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board to recruit more GPs are not only inadequate but they exclude practices with the worst GP to Patient ratios
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