The first of this fly-on-the-wall series set in a south-east London health centre was shown in the last week of April, at a time when the Chair and Secretary of the RCGP were making headlines about the importance of providing more resources for general practice so that GPs can provide a decent service. Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer, had been uttering apocalyptic warnings about the over-prescription of antibiotics, and the ‘antidepressants do more harm than good’ debate had somehow reignited itself. With astonishing prescience almost all of these controversies were dealt with in the very first episode of the series.
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