Scottish GPs told to focus on urgent care only to reduce NHS pressures
GPs in some parts of Scotland have been asked to only see urgent and emergency patients to help ease ‘unprecedented levels’ of pressure on the NHS.
On Tuesday (10 January) health secretary Humza Yousaf said that ‘this is the single most challenging winter that the NHS in Scotland has ever faced’, and announced that guidance had been issued to all health boards, outlining that they can take necessary steps to protect their patients, staff and services.