Community emergency medicine: taking the ED to the patient: a 12-month observational analysis of activity and impact of a physician response unit.

The primary care sector is also seeing increasing demand for its’ services against limited capacity, manifesting as longer waiting times, an increasing trend in telephone consultations, fewer patients having named GPs and home visits being less common than previously. 14 These factors have contributed to rising demand across the emergency sector. 15 The ‘NHS Long Term Plan’ 16 outlines how the NHS should evolve in the face of growing concern regarding funding, staff shortages, increasing equalities and an ageing population.

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