GPs call for an end to home visits, saying they do not have time Family doctors are calling for an end to home visits - saying they are too busy to visit the frail and elderly.
The radical proposal, to be put forward at a conference of the British Medical Association, would see the duties removed from the standard contract for GPs
Medics said house calls were too “time consuming” for family doctors, who were overloaded.
But patients’ groups said the threat to withdraw such services from GPs was “appalling” and would put the vulnerable at risk. The Daily Telegraph
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The radical proposal, to be put forward at a conference of the British Medical Association, would see the duties removed from the standard contract for GPs
Medics said house calls were too “time consuming” for family doctors, who were overloaded.
But patients’ groups said the threat to withdraw such services from GPs was “appalling” and would put the vulnerable at risk. The Daily Telegraph
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