Helen Salisbury: A cool welcome for management consultants

General practice is in crisis, and clearly something must be done. Funding has shrunk from 11% of the NHS budget in 2006-07 to less than 8% now; the patient population has grown, but the number of GPs available to look after them has fallen by 2133 since 2015.12 Unsurprisingly, patients are finding it hard to see their doctor. But rather than these funding and staff retention issues being tackled it seems that reorganisation is on the horizon, which is likely to result in patients losing out on quality and continuity of care as they’re shunted towards “healthcare professionals” in urgent care centres instead of seeing their own GP.3Our integrated care board (ICB) has brought in a team of management consultants to help work out what should happen next. They recently co-hosted a lunchtime webinar to launch their programme of work, an event attended by around 150 GPs from the area….
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