FAMILY doctors have the chance to air their grievances on working conditions.
The views of GPs in Bolton will be taken on board by the British Medical Association, which is currently trying to draw up new contracts for GPs with the Government.
Doctors will soon receive a 12-page questionnaire asking them for ways to improve the GP system in what is being described as the biggest consultation exercise for a decade.
As reported in the BEN, doctors believe they are overworked, and underpaid -- and are threatening to quit the NHS if the Government does not step in.
Dr John Chisholm, chairman of the BMA's General Practitioners Committee, said: "We know family doctors are desperate for change.
"They cannot carry on with their current work intensity.
"Not without patient care being made to suffer.
"Their votes in the resignation ballot in May told us more than half will consider resigning from the NHS in April.
"That is if we haven't negotiated an acceptable new contract and obtained the right to represent all GPs at national level by then.
"This survey will put flesh on the bones of GPs' discontent."
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