In the future, our health service will rely heavily on a GP workforce with the capabilities and competence to deliver care closer to home and reduce the state’s reliance on hospital care. Yet GPs report that they are struggling to maintain their existing workload — they are seeing patients whose conditions are more and more complex, they are in a greater diversity of workplaces, and they often single-handedly take responsibility for patients who would have previously been managed by a host of specialists.
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