A leading GP has advised people to consider private healthcare because of the difficulties in accessing services
Irfan Malik, a GP in Sherwood, said he feared for patient safety – and was having to advise people to consider private healthcare because accessing services was becoming so difficult, reports the British Medical Association.
"We get a wide range of patients, and we are not always qualified to make the diagnosis or carry out the specialist tests. We only refer when we absolutely have to, but more and more referrals are being rejected with advice and patients not seen."He continued: "Every referral is becoming a battle and a struggle, they send a letter back with lots of advice and things to do and other referrals to make.
The last six months of recorded data, from November 2021 to April 2022, show that on average there were 428 referrals a month, whereas in the six months leading up to March 2020 it was only 611. A briefing document from the NUH discusses the issues and says that a "conscious" decision had been made to "carefully vet all referrals from primary and secondary care." Michael Wright, chief executive of Nottinghamshire local medical committee, says local GPs had raised concerns over the increased use of advice and guidance is "effectively a way to control workload rather than address genuine clinical need.
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