GP care analysis casts doubt on Labour pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/06/gp-care-analysis-casts-doubt-labour-pledge-bring-back-family-doctor
Posted by GeoWa
GP care analysis casts doubt on Labour pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/06/gp-care-analysis-casts-doubt-labour-pledge-bring-back-family-doctor
Posted by GeoWa
2 Comments
There already is a specialty [ at least in the U.S.. ] of family medicine.
Medical care of children is very complex – someone needs to do it, and it is often the family medicine doctor.
> Patients will increasingly see nurses, physiotherapists or pharmacists instead of GPs, says Frontier Economics study
I don’t really care what kind of health care professional I see if they’re able to help me out. The mindset of “need to see a GP” really needs to change.
The success metric here should be overall patient outcome, not success rate for seeing a particular practitioner type.