This is the second instalment in a series running all week on the events and stories that impacted GPs in 2020.

Part three will be published on Wednesday. For part one, click here.

If COVID-19 has any lasting impact on general practice, it will undoubtedly be the way it has thrust remote consults onto the specialty.

Medicare-funded telehealth was initially just a limited stopgap to ensure patients could access GP care as the first wave of the pandemic sent the country into lockdown.