Once a month, GP Lisa Silver updates a spreadsheet on her computer, recording how many patients are registered at her village practice at the top of the Chilterns. ‘In 2015 we had 3,454 patients,’ she says. ‘We now have 4,430.’
But although they’ve gained close to an extra 1,000 patients, what she and her GP partner, Julie Barton, haven’t been able to get for years is another GP to share the mounting workload. After five years of looking, they have