Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 15
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We were concerned that GPs might not be prioritising care for those with or at...
Conclusion
We were concerned that GPs might not be prioritising care for those with or at risk of frailty. NHSE acknowledged that GPs were not formally assessing enough of their patients for frailty.32 NHSE recognised that it had pushed GP practices very hard over the past couple of years to improve access. However, it agreed that since capacity is constrained and demand exceeds capacity, which is true across general practice, pushing to improve one aspect of care inevitably causes consequences to appear elsewhere, in this case, support for people with frailty.33