GPs should refuse to provide NHS aftercare for private surgery

Howard emphasises an important aspect of the increase in private healthcare post-pandemic in the face of a health service that can hardly be said to have survived—namely, the knock-on effect on other healthcare professionals, especially general practitioners.1GPs remain pivotal in the safe provision of all healthcare to their patients by ensuring that private procedures are recorded in the patient’s NHS health record and that the private consultant is aware of the patient’s medical history, as they would with an NHS referral.In Bristol, however, GPs refuse to remove sutures or to provide direct NHS aftercare for private surgical episodes, including “routine” prescribing. This is, quite rightly, part of the private episode of care, especially the immediate aftercare of patients who have had surgery, which should be provided by the private consultant and the private hospital. A GP might agree at the outset of the episode of care to provide their practice’s…
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