UK GPs will produce blueprint for the future

General practitioners in the United Kingdom, other healthcare workers, patients, policymakers, and politicians will be asked to contribute ideas over the next few months to a consultation document on the strengths of general practice, the threats, and the solutions for the next decade.

Announcing this at the conference of local medical committees last week, John Chisholm, chairman of the General Practitioners Committee, said that it was time for GPs to define their own agenda for the future: “We need to take stock of what being a GP should mean in the next millennium, what …