It was interesting to read Jacky Hayden's editorial where she said, ‘future recruitment of GPs to deprived areas will need sustained action’.1 She is correct, but I am afraid the answer is partly to do with the ‘m’ word: ‘money’. I am painfully aware that medical royal colleges, because of their charitable status, are reluctant to go near ‘pay and rations’ issues; that is the job of the British Medical Association. However, when pay and rations get to the point that patient care and medical standards are at risk of starting to fall, then maybe medical royal colleges should say something?
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