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Primary care teams are facing enormous pressure to improve access to their services, but, for many practices, the resource required to do so appears to be thin on the ground. The downward trend in the numbers of full-time, fully qualified GPs working in practices has continued, evidenced by the 254 GPs the British Medical Association reports as having left the profession in the year to September 2023. Meanwhile, demand has continued to rise, putting...

Dr Rony Lindell is Medical Director at Klinik Healthcare Solutions and a practising GP. The pressures on primary care teams are rising. The combination of steady growth in patient demand, increased complexity of patient care needs, and limits on the availability of full-time, fully qualified GPs has put efficiency at more of a premium than ever. Even before the emergence of large language models, artificial intelligence held huge potential for add...

Klinik’s UK Customer Success Director, Shelley Johnson, examines how the patient experience of primary care can be improved by supporting practices to make changes to their process and policies, and how engagement with patients can ensure satisfaction and uptake of services. Anyone who has attempted to book an appointment at their GP surgery over the last few years will be familiar with the “8am rush”. Patients phone a local General Practitioner (GP)...

AI in Primary Care: Opportunities and Obstacles to great adoption Rony Lindell, Medical Director, Klinik As pressure on primary care mounts, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a valuable resource to alleviate patient demand and improve outcomes. The technology is being appraised for use in secondary care fields like radiology, and now there is growing interest in its use and potential within primary care. AI in primary care presents nume...