General practice can’t turn into a signposting service

After antenatal care what will be taken from GPs next?1 We have GPs in training who haven’t done paediatric or psychiatry jobs, or dermatology, otorhinolaryngology, or neurology. Is general practice to turn into a signposting service?Shared antenatal care, in reality, was continuity building for the future, with any problems moved on to obstetric teams. GPs will now stop learning about symptoms, such as causes of itch in pregnancy, and recognising serious but rare problems. Healthcare practitioners will end up arguing over who is “responsible” for women whose symptoms may or may not be pregnancy related.Many other symptoms are heading the same way. Facial pain? Is it dental? We don’t want to know but neither does anybody else. Deaf? We don’t syringe ears so you’ll have to pay privately, even without an examination.I realise that as a GP working part time at the end of my career I am out of…
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