What if GPs could discharge their patients the way hospitals do?

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What if GPs could discharge their patients the way hospitals do?

By Glen Davies
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GPs’ feeling of being overwhelmed, drowning in demands and requests cannot be sustained [Image: Aubree Herrick on Unsplash]

General practice needs to empower patients rather than ‘hoarding’ and keeping them on a treadmill of needing care, writes Glen Davies

We do not discharge anyone; in fact, the funding model encourages us to hoard patients It is distressing to read in New Zealand Doctor Rata Aote