Four GPs reported that for more than 25% of their adult patients, mental health was the primary issue and one GP, whose experience was as a GP and a psychiatrist, reported this proportion as more than 50%.
Continuity of care providers, i.e. GP and practice nurses, GPs' expertise, trust, free choice of GP and a kind open attitude were highly valued.
54% of the patients were seen by a GP only, 38% by a nurse practitioner only, and 8% by both a GP and a nurse.
He was being assessed by me, a GP and a social worker at home under the Mental Health Act.
Cumbria is one, which has already far down the track, led by a charismatic GP and a local councillor.
As the son of a GP and a midwife, perhaps a medical career for Nick, 38, was inevitable.
In a recent article for the Guardian blog Occam's Corner, Richard P Grant imagines a conversation between a helpless GP and a desperate patient with an untreatable illness.
"The Health and Nutrition sections of Veganuary.com were co-authored by a GP and a qualified nutritionist, so we are confident in the information we provide.
My client, J, is a barrister with a history of depression whose condition had been managed by her GP and a psychotherapist.
Pitted against him are a bitterly cold GP and a deputy headmaster crippled by irreconcilable ambivalence towards his son, an unnervingly self-possessed adolescent whose subversion takes the unusual but highly effective form of telling the truth.
