GPs and emergency primary health care

Loneliness: Don’t ask, don’t tell? - Centre for Mental Health

There’s not much my GP doesn’t know about me. She knows my blood pressure and cholesterol levels. She knows my height, my weight, whether I smoke and even how often I drink alcohol. She knows these things because they’re crucial to my future health.  But there’s one thing my GP doesn’t know. Because she’s never asked. And it’s not a subject I’m likely to raise myself. She doesn’t know whether I’m lonely.  Loneliness is also crucial to my future …

GPs and emergency primary health care

The statistics show the population's use of GP and emergency primary health care (consultations) by gender, age, education, immigrant category and country background. Figures for GPs are also given by county of residence. The consultations can be divided into diagnosis groups, but only by patients’ gender and age.