General practitioners (GPs) in the UK are under tremendous pressure as they have to support a record number of patients who are stuck on the NHS waiting list for specialist care, MPs heard on Tuesday. During an oral evidence session of Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee, a GP said she has to support patients on the NHS waiting list, including one during a 63-week wait to see a gastroenterologist. “And what are all those patients doing? Well, we’re holding them, we’re taking the risk, we’re trying to support them through that,” Dr. Kate Fallon, a GP at Somerton House Surgery in Somerset, said. “It’s not just gastroenterology, but that’s the worst example.” The time-consuming task is creating a bottleneck that left GPs with “two to three minutes” to deal with each health issue,  according to Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). “So you got a complex problem and …