Primary care has been divvied out bit by bit. What's left for GPs?

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Breaking general practice down into ever smaller parts to be taken up a growing number of associate roles is causing an existential crisis for GPs – and undermining patient care, says GP Dr Berenice Langdon.

I had never had a consultation like this; I simply couldn’t resolve it. The patient didn’t know why I was calling them. I didn’t know why I was calling them.