Devalue existing model of general practice and lose its benefits for patients

Pump priming funding enables new models of general practice to exist, not better modelling.1 The pretext for claiming the general practice model is broken is jarringly familiar, joining previous leaders’ similarly specious claims. The background to this latest clarion call is a GP service that since 2010 has lost more than £3bn (€3.4bn; $4bn) a year in funding and 1500 practices to closures, mergers, and …