General practice cooperatives are coping well

EDITOR—Cooperatives present patients with the easiest access to a doctor of any part of the NHS. We have led the way in modernising out of hours primary care, and we have been arguing for, and in many areas creating, a “whole systems approach” to access. It was therefore galling to read that “patients may have bypassed general practices and cooperatives as phone lines became overwhelmed; and accident and emergency staff often had no other options but to admit.”1 These unfounded …