TY - JOUR T1 - Pitfalls of GPs Getting back Directly into Out-of-hours care JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 547 LP - 547 DO - 10.3399/bjgp13X673865 VL - 63 IS - 615 AU - Michelle Drage Y1 - 2013/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/63/615/547.1.abstract N2 - Michelle DrageRecent ministerial pronouncements and media hyperbole around GPs being personally responsible and even personally providing out-of-hours care have sent shock waves throughout the profession. Such a reversal of an agreement that suited government as recently as 2004, is regarded by three generations of GPs as the last straw. For rural and city GPs alike, that agreement brought an end to constant battle against exhaustion, absence from family and home, marital breakup, neglect, and deterioration of personal health with no respite in sight. Demand for out-of-hours … ER -