Dr Steve Taylor: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- GP and co-lead of the Doctors' Association UK
- Quoted on
- GP access, Medical ethics & regulation, Respiratory (asthma/COPD), Public health & prevention, Children's health, A&E & ambulance response, Heart disease & stroke, Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 16 (15 with a linkable article)
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 12 Aug 2026
“There were nearly twice as many jobs available three years ago. There still just aren't enough jobs in general practice.”
What Dr Steve Taylor has said
“I've been a GP since 1993 and most of that time have been a partner in a suburban practice in north Manchester.”
GP co-lead, Doctors Association UK · GP access · 30 Sept 2026 · General Practice: here today, gone tomorrow? ↗
“If they don't do what they have decided to do then they've got to make another group of people redundant... It reflects the complexity of funding streams in general practice.”
Doctors' Association UK GP representative · GP access · 30 Sept 2026 · ARRS GPs facing redundancy as practice-level scheme kicks in ↗
“It's vital that the GMC charges fairly for doctors on maternity, paternity and adoption leave. Any GP that has continued to pay the higher rates for GMC registration while on leave should respond to this survey by DAUK.”
DAUK GP spokesperson · Medical ethics & regulation · 30 Sept 2026 · DAUK urges rethink on GMC fees for doctors taking parental leave ↗
“Patients value face-to-face appointments, and actually GPs value them too. And I think they're just being forced more and more behind the screens. If doctors are just sat behind screens all day, that is a risk, and we do need to recognise that face-to-face is still the is still the best way of actually treating and diagnosing patients.”
Doctors' Association UK GP spokesperson · GP access · 30 Sept 2026 · One in three GP practices reduce face-to-face appointments due to online access changes ↗
“GP surgeries and pharmacies were being 'set up to compete with each other' for vaccination incentives.”
GP and co-lead of the Doctors' Association UK · GP access · 29 Sept 2026 · Pharmacy First expanded to ‘ease pressure’ on general practice and A&E ↗
“The change in criteria for Covid vaccination is ill-thought through. There has been a spike in Covid infections in the past couple of months and, rightly, many older people are concerned about contracting Covid again, or for the first time.”
GP co-lead of Doctors' Association UK · Respiratory (asthma/COPD) · 10 Sept 2026 · GPs criticise Covid vaccine messaging as rates continue to rise ↗
“We were set up to compete with each other in way that isn't right, and therein lies the problem. If [vaccine commissioning] could be set up more collaboratively with no funding losses, everyone wins, and the most important people who win are the communities we serve.”
GP and co-lead of the Doctors' Association UK · Public health & prevention · 10 Sept 2026 · Vaccine commissioning ‘should not encourage GPs and pharmacists to compete’ ↗
“When it comes to vaccination programmes it is 'really important' to have a 'collaborative approach' rather than separate commissioning. The problem with commissioning the vaccines to pharmacies isn't that they aren't able to support the programmes, it's the fact that in most cases the same cohort of willing people would get vaccinated in both GP practices and pharmacies.”
Doctors' Association GP spokesperson · Public health & prevention · 10 Sept 2026 · GPs ‘disappointed’ by NHSE decision to commission Men B vaccine from pharmacies ↗
“No patient who is referred into an emergency department by a GP should be assessed by a doctor. No patient who presents with undifferentiated symptoms should be allowed home without the say so of a doctor.”
Doctors' Association (DAUK) GP spokesperson · Children's health · 10 Sept 2026 · Coroner raises GP referral concerns after boy dies from missed appendicitis ↗
“It's seems increasingly difficult for ICBs to function effectively with cuts in their funding. Winter pressures are a real problem for hospitals and one of the biggest challenges in the NHS.”
Doctors' Association UK spokesperson · Respiratory (asthma/COPD) · 10 Sept 2026 · Only nine ICBs confirm extra funding for general practice this winter ↗
“It is concerning that mistakes are happening within the Pharmacy First programme given that this is some of the more simple prescribing done in primary care. There may be some simple explanations, but it shows that there are significant challenges when prescribing medication to patients where the whole history is not easily understood or accessible.”
Doctors' Association GP spokesperson · Respiratory (asthma/COPD) · 10 Sept 2026 · Regulator raises concerns over inappropriate Pharmacy First antibiotics prescribing ↗
“the key issue in the case was that once Ethan arrived at the hospital, he was seen by an ANP rather than a doctor.”
DAUK GP co-lead · A&E & ambulance response · 10 Sept 2026 · GP referrals to A&E should require doctor assessment, say GP leaders ↗
“Access to more cholesterol tests is good in general, however funding one part of primary care to do the tests without funding GPs to deal with the additional work seems a continuing problem.”
Doctors' Association UK GP spokesperson · Heart disease & stroke · 10 Sept 2026 · Pharmacies to offer seven-minute cholesterol checks as part of NHS England pilot ↗
“Any improvement in mental health care is to be welcomed. Staffing of these services will be important as we know that there are multiple vacancies in psychiatry creating delays in treatment. It is vital that highly trained staff are employed in supporting patients.”
GP co-lead, Doctors' Association UK · Mental health · 12 Aug 2026 · Government announces 100 community mental health centres to ‘work alongside GPs’ ↗
Where Dr Steve Taylor has been quoted
- NHS data reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in Englandgponline.com · 30 Sept 2026
- General Practice: here today, gone tomorrow?lowdownnhs.info · 30 Sept 2026
- ARRS GPs facing redundancy as practice-level scheme kicks ingponline.com · 30 Sept 2026
- DAUK urges rethink on GMC fees for doctors taking parental leavegponline.com · 30 Sept 2026
- One in three GP practices reduce face-to-face appointments due to online access changespulsetoday.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Pharmacy First expanded to ‘ease pressure’ on general practice and A&Enursinginpractice.com · 29 Sept 2026
- GPs criticise Covid vaccine messaging as rates continue to risepulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Vaccine commissioning ‘should not encourage GPs and pharmacists to compete’pulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- GPs ‘disappointed’ by NHSE decision to commission Men B vaccine from pharmaciespulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Coroner raises GP referral concerns after boy dies from missed appendicitispulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Only nine ICBs confirm extra funding for general practice this winterpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Regulator raises concerns over inappropriate Pharmacy First antibiotics prescribingpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- GP referrals to A&E should require doctor assessment, say GP leaderspulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Pharmacies to offer seven-minute cholesterol checks as part of NHS England pilotpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Government announces 100 community mental health centres to ‘work alongside GPs’pulsetoday.co.uk · 12 Aug 2026
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