Restore the doctor-patient relationship in primary care, say MPs

General practices should measure and report on continuity of care for their patients as a way of repairing damage done to the doctor-patient relationship over recent years, MPs have said.MPs on the parliamentary health and social care committee were blunt about the perilous state of primary care in a report on the future of general practice.1 They warned that the profession was demoralised, GPs were leaving almost as fast as new ones could be recruited, and patients were becoming increasingly unhappy with access to care. The root of the trouble, they said, was that there were not enough GPs to meet ever increasing demands on the service, coupled with cases becoming increasingly complex from an ageing population and falling numbers of qualified, full time equivalent GPs working in the NHS.A key theme of the report is the need for the government to restore the doctor-patient relationship. “Seeing your GP should…
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