GP Partnership Review Final Report
General practice is one of the most important and respected institutions in our communities; it is the foundation of the NHS. It has been credited as a major reason for the NHS being one of the most cost-effective models of healthcare, outperforming many countries in the Western world which spend significantly more on their health care systems.
The strengths of general practice that deliver these outcomes include:
• organising care based on a registered list, with the vast majority of the population registered with a practice;
• providing care from cradle to grave;
• having a holistic approach to care, looking after the whole person and not simply focusing on one disease or a single episode of care;
• knowing more than one generation in a family, having a lifelong medical record;
• providing continuity of care where needed;
• and managing the undifferentiated presentation of symptoms
