TY - JOUR T1 - Population health JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 226 LP - 226 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X690761 VL - 67 IS - 658 AU - Tim Senior Y1 - 2017/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/658/226.abstract N2 - You GPs must be a frustrating bunch. If you look at us from the perspective of those wanting the health system to run like a finely honed machine, we’re the expensive grit that gets trapped in the big cogs. You can feel the hand-wringing exasperation in all those articles that start ‘GPs should …’. We should be screening for everything from anxiety to Zika. We should be following the guidelines for … well, anything really. Why won’t we just implement ‘The Evidence’?There are studies that show our specialist colleagues do follow the guidelines on their patients more than we do. If only this happened for everyone, imagine how good population … ER -