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One of the top doctors in Leeds has warned the city can "ill-afford to lose" any more of its experienced GPs, as not enough young doctors are taking jobs at local surgeries.

It follows shocking revelations that Leeds now has an equivalent of more than 1,600 registered patients for every GP, with one practice in the city seeing more than 8,000 per doctor according to latest NHS figures.

Clinical director of North Leeds Primary Care Network Dr Richard Vautrey said surgeries in urban and inner city areas are more likely to struggle to recruit GPs, and that the UK still needs to rely on doctors from overseas to fill GP vacancies as older doctors retire.

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Dr Vautrey says more needs to be done to recruit and hold onto GPs in the city.

"There are just not enough GPs being trained and we are not retaining enough GPs, which leaves existing teams with increased workloads and patients with more difficulty accessing services."

NHS Digital figures show 909,394 patients were registered at GP practices in the NHS Leeds area at the end of January – along with the equivalent of 556 full-time GPs.

This means each GP would be dealing with an average of 1,637 patients if the workload was spread evenly.

But the numbers are far from even across the city's 91 practices - according to the stats, two surgeries had more than 8,000 patients to every full time equivalent GP, while another

had 6,067.

Leeds practices with the lowest number of patients per GP are York Street Health Practice (519), P

Top Leeds doctor says more support needed as stats show 1,600 patients to every GP