Marie-Louise Connolly, BBC News NI Health Correspondent
Prof Rafael Bengoa, who led a 2016 review of healthcare, warned if Northern Ireland doesn’t change the way it provides health and social care the situation will get worse.
Well, it has indeed, it has got a lot worse.
The professor likened that avoidance of change to leaving the burning platform to blaze unchecked.
General Practice has been feeling that heat for some time and the flames are likely to get higher.
GPs affected say they raised concern as far back as 2021.
While other practices have handed back contracts and their patients absorbed by either health trusts or other GP’s – this story in Mid-Ulster is different.
For the first time a practice has closed and, according to doctors, patients are being “forced” unto other practices who have themselves sought crisis intervention.
One doctor said the current GP model is dying and that it will take more than just resources to resurrect it.
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