Abstract
There has been much media coverage of shorter UK GP consultation times recently, with the UK having the shortest consultation times in the developed world.1 After 30 years I recently retired from my partnership and decided to take up a portfolio career, which included locum work back at my old practice. In returning to general practice after a gap of several months, there were four areas of concern for me personally — short consultation times, IT, changes to local referral pathways, and managing risk, with consultation times and risk being my primary concerns. The Retained Doctor Scheme2 did not alleviate these concerns and so I negotiated a system …
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