GPs and the drift away from the clinical frontline

In my three decades as a GP, I have noticed a worrying trend which has not received due publicity: the tendency for GPs to drift away from direct clinical care. Inexorably yet tragically, both attitudes and political planning have conspired to give clinical care lowly status, whilst career advancement for GPs now rests on securing a higher position within a deanery or within the ICB, CQC or GMC bureaucracies, which hold higher pay and status than the clinical frontline. Our lexicon is riddled with nebulous phrases worthy of critical analysis. ‘Work-life balance’ is a value-laden concept, yet I know hardly