Needed: a new model for primary care
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Needed: a new model for primary care

Helen Ward Associate professor in non-medical prescribing, London South Bank University

Nurse-led GP surgeries can work well so why are there so few?

Ten years ago a team of nurses took the initiative to run a GP practice in London. What began as a social enterprise project became one of the first nurse-led GP practices in the country. A decade on, it is still the only one. Why?

Nursing Management. 23, 4, 17-17. doi: 10.7748/nm.23.4.17.s26

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