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Looking at what happens when a GP surgery closes – what are the wider impacts on patients and other practices?
Episode 1216th June 2023 • BJGP Interviews • The British Journal of General Practice
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In this episode, we talk to Dr Joe Hutchinson, an academic clinical fellow at the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research at the University of Manchester. 

Title of paper: Consequences of the closure of General Practices: a retrospective cross-sectional study

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2022.0501

Closures of UK general practices are increasingly common, yet little is known about the consequences. This cross-sectional study of English general practices finds practice closures increase list size in exposed practices, with changes in workforce composition and reductions in patient satisfaction.

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