Read Michelle’s latest write-up on Transforming Primary Healthcare below.
Here are a few stats she quoted to start you off. The NHS is under incredible pressure right at the time it is so under-resourced, -staffed and -regarded. It makes me so sad.
Visits to GPs have increased from 2 per year in 2000 to 10 per year in 2020 yet we are losing an unprecedented number of newly qualified doctors driven away by unacceptable NHS working practices.
Daily patient lists for working GPs can reach 30 to 40.
Dispensing in primary care doubled from 10 prescription items per head per year in 1996 to 20 in 2016
200-300 million prescribed drugs are wasted each year
Adverse drug reactions account for 10-20% of hospital in-patient admissions