Breaking point: the burnout crisis threatening the backbone of the NHS

Waseem Jerjes

doi:10.1071/HC23106

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Breaking point: the burnout crisis threatening the backbone of the NHS

Waseem Jerjes

¹ ² ³ ^*

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- Author Affiliations

¹ GP Partner, North End Medical Centre, London, UK.

² GP Trainer, Imperial College GP Training Scheme, London, UK.

³ GP Appraiser, North West London Area, London, UK.

^* Correspondence to: waseem.jerjes@nhs.net

Journal of Primary Health Care 15(4) 388-389 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23106

Submitted: 5 September 2023 Accepted: 12 September 2023 Published: 28 September 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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