‘As one senior GP put it to me, “some GPs don't even know how to hold a baby”1
In compiling his review of children's services commissioned by the NHS Executive, Professor Sir Ian Kennedy tells us that he ‘travelled around England and spoke to a great many people’.1 Indeed, an appendix lists hundreds of authorities he consulted and institutions he visited. Yet, although he has a great deal to say about GPs and general practice, he seems not to have set foot in a single surgery and to have spoken to only one GP — Professor Steve Field, the then chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Professor …