GP practices must offer patients an assessment or signpost them to an appropriate service on first contact, in newly-announced changes to the GP contract for 2023/24.
The changes to the contract for 2023/24, which is the final year of the five-year framework agreement, will be supplemented by guidance in a new Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care which NHS England said it will publish shortly.
Read more – Management in Practice (10/3/23)