TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunities and risks within the expanding role of general practice
AU - Speakman, Elizabeth M.
AU - Jarvis, Helen
AU - Whiteley, David
N1 - Copyright:
© British Journal of General Practice 2021.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - General practice has been increasingly required to expand its role to take on more complex care — demands enabled by the fluid boundaries of what constitutes ‘general practice’. To date, this expansion has largely related to the care of older patients with multiple morbidities; however, medical advances also present increasing opportunities to relocate specific treatments to primary care that have previously been the sole domain of hospital specialists. With the pressures of COVID-19 and yet more proposed NHS reorganisation, is it fair, or even feasible, to expect GPs to take on more responsibility, which may also open them to censure or legal liability?
AB - General practice has been increasingly required to expand its role to take on more complex care — demands enabled by the fluid boundaries of what constitutes ‘general practice’. To date, this expansion has largely related to the care of older patients with multiple morbidities; however, medical advances also present increasing opportunities to relocate specific treatments to primary care that have previously been the sole domain of hospital specialists. With the pressures of COVID-19 and yet more proposed NHS reorganisation, is it fair, or even feasible, to expect GPs to take on more responsibility, which may also open them to censure or legal liability?
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111955312&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3399/bjgp21X716489
DO - 10.3399/bjgp21X716489
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 34326075
AN - SCOPUS:85111955312
SN - 0960-1643
VL - 71
SP - 344
EP - 345
JO - British Journal of General Practice
JF - British Journal of General Practice
IS - 709
ER -