Loneliness can be as bad for health as a chronic long-term condition, says GP leader

Loneliness can be as bad for health as a chronic long-term condition, says GP leader Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, will talk about the older patients who are seeing their GP because they are lonely and want human contact or someone to talk to.

In her opening speech to the College’s Annual Primary Care Conference – her first as Chair - Professor Stokes-Lampard will look at the impact of social isolation on individual patients and its inevitable toll on the entire NHS. Royal College of General Practitioners