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A survey of GPs in Northampton has found that almost 1 in 10 would like to retire early, within the next five years. Some have told 91Èȱ¬ Radio Northampton that low morale, long hours and increasing bureaucracy are all partly to blame.

91Èȱ¬ Radio Northampton reporter Elinor Cross has had unprecedented access to GPs and their surgeries and hears from Mark Barrowclough, a GP from Northampton, from Dr Carolyn Perryer from Delapre Medical Practice, and from Emma Clancy, a GP in Towcester.

Stuart talks to semi-retired GP Dr Tony Hillier from Blisworth who sits on the Local Medical Committee, and to Dr Darin Sieger , the chair of Nene Clinical Commissioning Group and a GP in Northampton.

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