Ninety percent of people will consult a family doctor in 2020. The graph on the left suggests why they will do so. A significant number will have minor self limiting illness, a larger proportion will have chronic/ long-term illness and most will attend for multiple reasons. The graph on right demonstrates that most people will have risk factors for long-term illness often more than one risk factor. To reduce the risk(s) they will need to change their lifestyle. The challenge in primary care is to add value by triggering/ prompting lifestyle change. That is a very specialist skill set. Mandates a new paradigm and or a new set of tools.
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