The Chairman of the Royal College of GPs recently said that ‘general practice has radically altered over the last five years, with ballooning workloads and more and more patient consultations having to be crammed into an ever-expanding working day.’
The blame for this tends to be put on a growing and ageing population or an ever-increasing range of ailments.
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