Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed that A&E staff know some
patients ’ more than their own GPs’ in a letter submitted to a national
newspaper ahead of a speech this week on his plans to improve elderly
care.
Mr Hunt is due to make an announcement this week on his plans for a ‘named clinician’ to take charge of the vulnerable elderly, and he claims in the letter that many of this group of patients ‘feel there’s no reliable alternative to hospital’.
He
blames this on ‘misguided’ changes to the GP contract in 2004 and he
raises the prospect of GPs and district nurses working together to keep
patients out of hospital.
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