The government is demanding that GPs see more patients face-to-face in return for an injection of extra funding, but many in the profession say the pandemic has left them close to breaking point
When Covid-19 struck the UK in early 2020, GPs in England were already feeling the pinch of an increasingly ageing society presenting in their surgeries with increasingly complex medical needs. The arrival of the pandemic at an instant moved their work almost entirely online. Instead of face-to-face consultations being the norm, they became the exception. In their place came phone and video consultations.
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