General Practice in England is in a state of crisis that has been gradually engineered since 1990 when measures to convert the NHS to a profit-driven, private health insurance system were first introduced. Since 2010, we’ve seen deliberate defunding, preceded by contract changes in 2004 which have increased fragmentation and market bureaucracy, making a greater […]

Thank you for listening to our first podcast on this important and imminent threat to England’s National Health Service (NHS). The bedrock of the British health service has been its well established, easily accessible primary care. Individuals or groups of family doctors working in practices covering the whole country and accessible to all, funded through […]