Dr Clare Gerada, a senior GP and former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, looks at the way the GP’s job has changed over the last 30 years. No wonder the NHS is haemorrhaging GPs, because it is not a pretty tale. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/22/my-30-years-as-gp-profession-horribly-eroded-clare-gerada [LONG READ]
Category:NHS
NHS Complexity & Covid
Interesting and useful background article in BMJ this week, from three well respected academics, on the complexity of the NHS and how it is affected by Covid. It’s worth a read, if only for the perspective. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n3128
Local Hospital Performance
NHS Tracker: How is the NHS in your area coping? Find out how your local NHS hospitals are currently performing with this app from the BBC at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59592551. It doesn’t say, but one has to assume the information presented is taken from publicly available NHS performance data.