Opportunities and risks within the expanding role of general practice

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 - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85111955312

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 -