In the media, there's been a lot of lambasting of GPs and the 2004 contract as the sole cause of A&E problems that have occured in the last year or so.
This is despite clear evidence from the King's Trust that it had nothing to do with the contract.
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2013/0 ... increasingWe already knew that as out-of-hours care was taken over by the Dept of Health, there was a rise in the number of walk-in centres and minor injury units to compensate. What we didn't have was visible data.
