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are well made . In the online full text version, wewere able to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our methods and analysis in greater detail.1 Delegated home visiting services areindeed still relatively unusual and we agree that...Competing Interests: Author of original paper - Page navigation anchor for Effect of weather on GP home visits: a cross-sectional studyEffect of weather on GP home visits: a cross-sectional studyA good study - however, to play devil's advocate, I wonder if it would have been worth exploring or discussing the study's limitations in more detail.For instance, this study
is based on data not from traditional general practice which is probably still by far and large the major provider of GP home visiting, but from a service that appears to beresourced and designed for in-hours visiting and might not have the competing priorities that the average GP surgery might have.A future study might want to look at total visit requests in traditional general practice (and bespoke services like this one), and the proportion that...Show MoreCompeting Interests: None declared.