>> Just watch out for the government stirring sentiment against doctors for the problems arising due
>> to under resourcing. They have form in finding scapegoats.
Exactly what Javid is doing now by focusing on face to face appointments and attempting to direct surgeries to abandon distancing to facilitate that.
A more measured approach would recognise that the advent of IT, smart phones etc etc meant that the traditional appointment is no longer the norm. My surgery has done telephone triage and prescribing for what must be well over 10 years.
The pandemic will have advanced the move to IT/video etc calls by several years. That is an opportunity not a threat.
Sure, if a patient NEEDS a F2F appointment they should have one but F2F shouldn't be treated as some sort of standard because it plays well with the Tories older demographic.
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