Reduction in face-to-face GP consultations
Denis Pereira Gray, Kate Sidaway‐Lee, Alex Harding, Philip Evans
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced the biggest change in consultation patterns in British general practice for at least 200 years. The St Leonard’s Practice in Exeter has for years recorded and analysed consultation data.1,2 After NHS guidance to reduce face-to-face consultations, there was an immediate reduction. During March the number of face-to-face consultations fell from a mean …
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