Reduced Visit Time Affecting Patient Health And Physician Job Satisfaction, Study Shows

UK doctors are more likely than their European counterparts to say that a shortage of healthcare providers has driven down visit lengths since they started work. 87 percent of British doctors say that time constraints have a negative impact on patient health. Not having enough time with each patient to provide care in the way they would choose is also the biggest hurdle to British doctors’ own job satisfaction.

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Filed under: Primary Care on December 11th, 2008