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Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
?Cyberchondriacs? and other ?worried well? patients must learn to use the GP properly, writes Dr Fiona Cornish, as pressure from their needs is leaving genuinely needy patients out in the cold
We read headlines of about reaching the ?crisis point? in general practice every day, with GPs on their knees and burning out through impossible workload. The components of the crisis are now well known: increasing patient demand, inadequate funding to provide all the interventions and drugs available, and an aging population. As GPs we can?t magically increase the economic wellbeing of the country, and therefore NHS funding - and we are partly to blame for keeping patients alive for so long. But can we exert any influence over patient demand?
Ironically, Aneurin Bevan predicted at the start of the NHS that the demand for healthcare would decrease as people became healthier. In fact, the opposite is true. As GPs, we generally like to keep patients happy and to be liked, but there is a limit to our goodwill.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/o...into-the-ground/20003523.article#.Ud1bCPm2aSp
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We read headlines of about reaching the ?crisis point? in general practice every day, with GPs on their knees and burning out through impossible workload. The components of the crisis are now well known: increasing patient demand, inadequate funding to provide all the interventions and drugs available, and an aging population. As GPs we can?t magically increase the economic wellbeing of the country, and therefore NHS funding - and we are partly to blame for keeping patients alive for so long. But can we exert any influence over patient demand?
Ironically, Aneurin Bevan predicted at the start of the NHS that the demand for healthcare would decrease as people became healthier. In fact, the opposite is true. As GPs, we generally like to keep patients happy and to be liked, but there is a limit to our goodwill.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/o...into-the-ground/20003523.article#.Ud1bCPm2aSp
(free registration required)