Medics and patients call for ‘crucial’ primary care minister

A new frontline health minister is needed to improve the country’s wellbeing, medics and patients have said.

Medics and patients call for ‘crucial’ primary care minister

An umbrella group of doctors, nurses, other healthcare professionals, and patient groups has urged a new Cabinet post be set up by the next government.

A primary care minister — which would be separate to a health minister — would help a badly needed overhaul of crucial services, according to the Primary Care Partnership.

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