All GPs to get economics training

All NHS GPs in England are to be trained to spot the early sign of recession, under government plans.

After announcing radical plans this week to highlight yet another reason why GPs are a bunch of crap, ministers also want help in spotting blindingly obvious fiscal and economic illiteracy on the part of the Government.

About 700,000 people in the UK have lost their job this week, a total that is expected to double or triple.

The Treasury says it will ensure appropriate training is provided to health professionals and create more chances for them to specialise in fiscal policy and macro-economics.

It will be interesting to find out how they are going to train people to spot the early signs of recession disease because Gordon Brown hasn't got a fucking clue, which is largely why we're in this mess in the first place Dr Francis Rant The Dr Rant Foundation

A spokeswoman said: "We want to make sure that every GP is trained to spot the first signs of recession, and to refer patients on to the Citizen's Advice Bureau.

"The Treasury will work with all relevant medical and nursing organisations - including the Royal College of GPs, Skills for Care and the NHS - to make sure that appropriate training is provided for medical students.

Family GP, Dr Francis Rant, said "Apparently, Gordon Brown has put an end to Tory 'Boom and Bust'. That particular bit of horse-shit manta will probably come back to bite the clunk-jawed fucktard on his spotty arse, because it looks like we're heading for a gigantic bust of truely page 3 proportions. Totally 'tits-up' would be another way of putting it."

"Of course, as an untrained GP, I wasn't able to see that allowing people with no job, no assets and no income to have £250k mortgage to buy a shoebox on a floodplain wasn't the very basis of a sensible economic strategy. Thanks to this wonderful new training opportunity, I might be able to spot the next asset price driven economic bubble compounded by endemic reckless debt trading, even if it has been labelled as 'the new economic paradigm', in plenty of time to warn the incumbent government before Sterling collapses.

He added: "One of the big problems in the early stages is that a lot of people with financial difficulties cover it up... and although some will come to the surgery, far more often it's relatives who ring us up.

"I would encourage relatives if they are worried to not vote for Gordon Brown next time, and try earning money before you spend it."