Primary and community care must be at core of new NHS

Primary and community care must be at the core of any government health agenda and expenditure going forward instead of a higher proportion of the NHS budget and staff going into hospital services. A new report from the King’s Fund says that there has been a slow erosion of capacity and confidence in primary and community care and the answer to over-crowded hospitals is not more hospitals. Instead funding, staff and political energy needs to be directed at general practice, pharmacy, community services and social care. The report explores the underlying factors that have prevented a vision of health and