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Patient care v prevention in general practice
Sacrificing population health for the medical industry: a distortion of priorities
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r388 (Published 04 March 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r388
- Cornelia Junghans Minton, academic general practitioner, public health specialist1,
- Martha Martin, general practitioner, honorary clinical research fellow1,
- Laura Rodriguez-Benito, general practitioner, Sutton Place clinical lead in population health management and health inequalities2,
- Matthew Harris, clinical reader in public health, consultant in public health medicine1
- 1Imperial College London, London, UK
- 2Sutton, UK
- c.junghans-minton{at}imperial.ac.uk
Martin and colleagues present an unnecessary dichotomy between access to healthcare and prevention of illness.1 The reasons why there are not enough general practitioners effectively recognising and treating illness when it presents are nuanced, encompassing induced demand, increased complexity, underfunding, fragmentation, and workforce experience and availability.
A large part of unmet healthcare demand is driven by welfare, public health, and social care systems failing. Although …
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