GPs’ leaders are calling for an end to home visits because they no longer have the time in their working day for the “anachronistic” practice.
Doctors will debate a motion this month that calls for GPs’ obligation to carry out home visits to be dropped from their contract.
The motion, to be put forward at a conference of the local medical committees in England by the committee representing GPs in Kent, calls for the removal of “the anachronism of home visits from core contract work”.
Instead, the body wants a separate contract to be drawn up that would allow paramedics and other healthcare professionals to carry out home visits.
If it is approved at the meeting on November 22, it would go to the GPs
