GPs leaving the UK

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DP is a HCP with lots of doctor friends.
In less than 2 years, 6 GPs have left the UK to work abroad (or are imminently leaving).
I read in the papers that 1 GP can care for upto 2000 patients so that's 12000 patients who have lost out.
AIBU to think there must be something about job that's driving them away?
The papers make it out to be easy and well paid but clearly not easy/well paid enough for some to stay and do it!
How can we keep our GPs in the UK to help us?

Who does the out of hours GP services if not a GP?

I asked my husband to leave his GP partnership last year. Over the 4 years he was a partner, he stopped running, climbing, hiking, music, socialising. His world shrunk down to work and family, and it’s no way to live.

If he was being paid £100k to do nothing, then I would’ve been delighted for him to stay in that job and would have left my hospital job to join him. As it is, no amount of money could pay me to do GP.

It’s all going to basically telephone/online triage, with appointments via apps like Babylon in the vast majority of cases and very rarely an in person appointment at either a local centre or a mobile unit (that visits different areas one day a week).

A locally based GP you have an ongoing relationship with is vanishing fast.

Our local surgery couldn’t find a doctor to take it on as a partner when the last managing doctor retired (couple of part-time salaried doctors were not interested in taking it in as business owners at all). So a local chain of old folk’s homes took on the surgery, as they had several homes nearby and it would have been very bad for them if the practice closed totally. They’ve bought the local pharmacy too.

Not a GP but nurse in Australia. I earn around 100k so 50,000 UK pounds. No nights or weekends. Not a CNS or NP. I left the NHS 15 years ago as working conditions were already so horrendous. It’s pretty sad to think I earn almost as much as a UK GP. Met plenty of UK doctors out here and none of us would work for NHS again. In fact as someone who needs medical attention fairly frequently I wouldn’t risk my own health to come back. The stories being told here are dreadful.

@Runkeeprunning thank you for that. People seem to be angry at health professionals deserved pay, but want them to work and train for years in a stressful environment for peanuts and happy that private sector workers get more but that’s ok.
Lot of children of doctor are wondering why you would do this job for the pay now.