How nurse prescribers are filling in for GPs
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How nurse prescribers are filling in for GPs

Daniel Allen Health writer

Deploying a team of nurses to manage long-term conditions has helped one GP avoid the need to recruit more doctors for her Lanarkshire practice

Susan Arnott of the Burnbrae Medical Practice in Shotts, Lanarkshire, was struggling to fill vacancies after the retirement of three other doctors in the space of 18 months.

Primary Health Care. 29, 1, 8-9. doi: 10.7748/phc.29.1.8.s8

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