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Morning Call: 13/03/2015

Cathy MacDonald

13/03/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - Morning Call, 13/03/2015

Cathy Macdonald asks listeners if they would want to be a GP.

Cathy Macdonald asks listeners if they would want to be a GP and if marriage and monogamy have had their day.

Scotland is facing a GP recruitment "crisis", with almost a fifth of practices reporting a vacancy, the British Medical Association has claimed. Its Scottish GP committee found that 17% of 463 practices surveyed had at least one vacancy for a GP. The organisation warned that the situation would affect patient care. But the Scottish Government said Scotland has more GPs per head of population than England. It said difficulties in recruiting GPs was "not an issue unique to Scotland". And it said its investment in primary care had seen the number of GPs increase by 6.9%. But who would be a GP in today's high pressure medical environment?
Cathy MacDonald asks: Would you want to be a GP?

The town of Livingston has been named as the most likely place in Scotland where a husband or wife is having an affair.
According to the official Infidelity Index 2015, the new town in West Lothian is the second most adulterous in Britain.
In Scotland, marriage levels are still historically low but the number rose slightly last year.
In 2014, 29,070 couples tied the knot compared to 41,174 back in 1974.
Cathy MacDonald asks: Have marriage and monogamy had their day? Call 0500 92 95 00.

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