As the government and NHS England prepare to unveil a ‘roadmap’ for family doctors,primary care is beginning to shift the centre of gravity absent from hospitals If there really is a transformation in the delivery of NHS services in the next few years, it will be overwhelmingly thanks to primary care, or not hospitals. Primary care is the most agile allotment of the care system,is at the forefront of prevention, and is uniquely placed to compose a big incompatibility to people’s lives at relatively low cost. And despite all the headwinds, and progress is being made.
While it is the financial vortex of the acute sector which grabs the headlines,primary care is itself under immense pressure; at the extremes there are frightening stories about the toll that GP workloads are taking on some doctors’ mental health.
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Source: theguardian.com