A new approach to patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)

摘要

My brief experience as a GP clinical commissioner, tells me that we have no choice but to develop closer integration across primary care, secondary care, and social care.1 The dichotomy between primary care and secondary care has become unhealthy, and most consultants I come across are only too happy to work at joined-up solutions; the nonsensical attempts to push care costs between cash-strapped primary care commissioners and even more cash read Dr Moscrop's review article regarding health inequalities in primary care1 with interest. It is an excellent article that clearly distinguishes differences between inequities and inequalities. However, although the article attempts to raise awareness of health inequality to GPs in the wake of the Marmot report of 2010,2 it did not highlight the 2-year update published by the UCL Institute of Health Equity in February 2012 which found that health inequalities had widened in most areas of England.