> Has anyone read the new GP contract? Just looking
> through the section on minor injuries. According to
> this document non traumatic aches and pains and
> injuries greater than 48 hours old are best dealt with
> in primary care. I wonder if the GP's know what they
> have signed up for!!
>
> Cheers Fred.
I don't understand this, i.e. how can injuries greater than 48 hours old be
core GP work? Surely injuries are injuries, regardless of their age, at
least for a few weeks! Wounds can be sutured, fractures can be fixed and
heads can be scanned (!) for at least a week or two after injury. And all of
these things are even more complex and challenging when they present a few
days after injury. Seems crazy to me to suggest that GPs, who normally have
minimal exposure to routine injury management, should somehow be able to
manage the delayed presenters, and without access to x-rays or scans or
subspecialists etc. As far as I'm concerned, injuries are my bread and
butter (within limits), I wouldn't expect a GP to deal with them, and
certainly not the GPs on my patch.
Adrian Fogarty
> Emergency care shot itself in the foot with defining 'recent ' as <7 days
in MTS [Martyn Hodson]
You do love your acronyms Martyn. But what's MTS??!!
AF
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