GPs facing 'emotional burnout' - Telegraph The survey, published in Pulse magazine, found that 97 per cent of the 1,784 GPs felt low levels of accomplishment, with 72 per cent registering high amounts of emotional exhaustion and 41 feeling a great deal of "depersonalisation." Dr Vautrey told Pulse: "It's alarming that so many GPs are burnt out. The current level of work is unsustainable. I hope enough alarm bells are ringing in the Department of Health, in NHS England, Health Education England and all the devolved nations for them to say 'we need to tackle this'. Dr Gerada yesterday warned the Commons Health Select Committee that GPs' workloads are higher than ever and many surgeries become fully booked for same-day appointments as soon as they open in the morning. She said: "I am getting emails from colleagues across the country to say their surgeries are now fully booked by 8.30 in the morning which is disgraceful. How can we run an NHS where you cannot get - unless it is an emergency and by that I mean a dire emergency - an appointment with your GP on the day? She added that it was "lazy" to blame the increasing burden on hospital A&E departments on the 2004 GP contract, which absolved family doctors of responsibility for providing out-of-hours care. A report by the Foundation Trust Network claims today that pressure on A&E departments will grow next winter, with six in every 10 trusts expecting the situation to be worse than this year. More than seven out of 10 trusts believe the accident and emergency system is at a "tipping point," with 62 per cent blaming increased demand for the pressure on A&E units.