>GPs prepared to do OOH are becoming an endangered species...
--> As will all GPs, at the rate things are going... In the same way as
supermarkets have destroyed the corner-shops, EDs will do for your local
practice. As one-by-one, the advantages of having a GP are taken away...
Electronic patient records bring the patient's past to the ED...
Lack of out of hours services, while ED is there...
More investigations quicker in hospitals...
More conditions seen by nurse practitioners, who can just as easily work in
walk-in centres...
etc.
I am not for this myself, but I see it happening...
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