With the issue of GP practice boundaries, there is in general a very limited understanding about general practice actually works, about how good quality general practice works. Even our hospital doctor colleagues often do not understand how it works.
Good quality British general practice is a very complex technology which serves local communities in geographical areas. You need to have an understanding of this and how it works. Otherwise, you are ‘ignorant’.
A GP colleague of mine has been to a number of events organised by the Department of Health in recent months. She has been struck by how ignorant the people from the Department of Health are about how general practice works, how general practitioners work, how good quality British general practice works.
‘Wilful ignorance’: don’t confuse me with the facts.
