GP referrals are ridiculous — no wonder we’re burning out
There has been a lot of talk about specialist referrals lately.
It’s been suggested that the current state of many public hospital outpatient departments has led to GPs managing conditions that they might normally refer on to a non-GP specialist.
I can’t say I think this is a bad situation.
A competent GP can surely do quite a lot of the management that chronic conditions require — why else would we have item numbers supposed to support GPs to develop plans to manage chronic conditions?
