Protecting the viability of general practice

Dara Gantly wonders whether the time is fast approaching to ask the last doctor leaving our health service to please turn out the lights. As ‘light bulb’ moments go, the 1992 Sun newspaper front-page splash with Neil Kinnock’s head stuck in a light bulb has to be one of the most memorable images in British political history. Along with the accompanying headline ‘If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights’, the coverage on the eve of the UK general election is acknowledged as having played a major part in Labour’s defeat and…