Winner
GPs being asked to do things that aren’t their job was a recurrent theme in 2012, with hospital trusts asking practices to take on phlebotomy, ECG scans and pre-anaesthetic checks. But surely the ultimate example came when Pulse revealed in April that GPs were being called into hospitals to register patients and treat them on wards.
Runner-up
Secondary care by no means has a monopoly on dumping work on GPs. Midwives earn a well-deserved mention for passing the buck on vaccinating pregnant women against whooping cough to GPs, citing an ‘increase in births’.
The benefits of Abbott’s point of care tests
