Forget pylons, it’s general practice likely to keel over

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Forget pylons, it’s general practice likely to keel over

Barbara
Fountain
Nuts CR Lorerock81 on iStock
You can only remove so many nuts and bolts before stuff just falls over [Image: Lorerock81 on iStock]

The Government’s about face on funding new cancer drugs is cause for celebration but, as welcome as that funding is, general practice is left to languish with a meagre capitation increase, writes editor Barbara Fountain

In a time of health sector cutbacks, job losses and rising living costs, the Government is looking to the public to pay higher copayments to support p