The Government’s manifesto pledge to recruit 6,000 new GPs by 2024 could ‘widen’ inequities in access to care if the policy is not executed ‘with equity in mind’, a thinktank has said.

In a new report (27 January), the Health Foundation assessed how to reverse the ‘inverse care law’: a term coined by a GP 50 years ago to describe how people who most need health care are least likely to receive it.

Read more – Management in Practice (28/1/22)