5 November 2024 – Phil Whitaker

Bring back the family doctor

What future for general practice?

General practice has long been considered the jewel in the NHS's crown, and the foundation of the entire health service. Yet over the past decade we have seen its unprecedented decline. Phil Whitaker discusses why strong general practice is crucial if we are to see the NHS delivering responsive, high quality healthcare once again. He asks, with the change of government, will general practice be restored or finally made to die.

Phil Whitaker

Dr Phil Whitaker is a practising GP, an award-winning writer, and medical editor of the New Statesman, where he has developed a reputation as an astute medical commentator over the past eleven years. His narrative non-fiction book, 'What Is a Doctor?' examines, through human stories and insightful analysis, the myriad changes that have transformed medicine and the NHS over the course of his thirty-four year career — for better and for worse.