General practice is overstretched and chronically underfunded, but many doctors still offer an almost magically good service, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
General practice is overstretched and chronically underfunded, but many doctors still offer an almost magically good service
‘We should be able to acknowledge the pressure GPs are under, while still noting that they are good.’‘We should be able to acknowledge the pressure GPs are under, while still noting that they are good.’Last modified on Tue 7 Feb 2023 14.25 GMThave a great GP. I’m not saying that to show off, or to rub anyone’s nose in anything.
Anyway, while my GP is great, I didn’t know if I could say the same for my mother, and I’d offered to call and get her an appointment because she hates getting up for 8am. Obviously, I then forgot and didn’t call until the tumbleweed hour – 8.29, to be precise – when all the appointments are gone and you have to admit to your mother that you’re useless. But, if I live in a kind of Scandinavian GP world, where everything is timely and running the way it should, my mum lives in medical Narnia.
Anyway, GPs – very overstretched, chronically underfunded, ceaselessly undermined by a rabid media, still doing a great job. That wasn’t so complicated, was it?
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