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Can two doctors, husband and wife, save their surgery from closure?

Duncan and Sian, husband and wife GPs, can't recruit enough doctors for their 10,000 patients. Their surgery is about to close. Can they save it?

Can Duncan and Sian, a doctor husband and wife team, save their surgery from closure? 

Duncan and Sian Shaw are both GPs. They live in Bournemouth with their young family and, for fourteen years, have been based at the same surgery, working hard for the thousands of patients on their list. But, like the situation facing many GP surgeries in the country, things have become critical: in the last three years, several doctors have resigned and Duncan and Sian have not been able to recruit new ones. 

When they started at the surgery it had eight doctors; now it has five, and soon there will be just three. It's no longer viable. They are at crisis point. Can they save the surgery? Or will they have to sell up and walk away, leaving 10,000 patients to find another GP? 

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