The end of online private GPs?
Does the rapid adoption of video consultation by primary care spell the end for private IT companies trying to take over NHS practices? Now all the GPs at my practice are happy to do video consults why does a patient need to go elsewhere? Part of the reason was old type surgeries would make people come down and if you led a busy life you didn’t want that - well you can get that with me now. Part of the reason was you get seen quicker well with total triage in place I will see you in minutes“ “ “What we have is an interesting juxtaposition - Commissioners are moving towards place based care - primary care homes - at population levels of £30-50K but we have just demonstrated that I can now access any patients record anywhere and I can consult them online. I could “sell” my care nationwide. Plenty of patients who used to live in my area begged to stay on my books, but I couldn’t given the way general practice has historically worked with practice boundaries.“ “ “Is it time to get rid of the boundary? get rid of the entitlement to a home visit the major stumbling block to taking on patients outside your area? “ “ “Are we going to get NHS GP practices that look after mobile IT literate patients (anyone want to join me in an online Superpractice?) and practices based in an area? #primarycare