Regularly. You got any figures to back that up or is it from your experience?
well yeah it's the whole reason you have pharmacists, and doctors who specialise in drug complications (if you know any old people on a lot of pills you can bet they've been refereed to them at least once) it's just the nature of it when patients have so much medication, eventually something will end up contradicting.
oh and what my my brother says happens and what he was taught, he's a doctor.
The problem there is you just add another layer into the care system.
why is that a problem?
If you can clear out all the minor appointments (ie people like me who go to the doctor to get hay fever medication prescriptions ( means it's free rather than paying OTC) people with minor colds etc,) basically nothing too important, you've just freed up dozens of actual GP appointment slots per week which means there's no insane 2 week wait to get an appointment like there is now in many clinics, which reduces the number of people who go to A&E with minor things because they can't get a gp appointment which reduced A&E wait times and frees up hospital staff, and you speed everything up which ends up improving care on the whole.
and as the person won't require the same amount of training (they don't need to do a surgical rotation for example) they don't cost as much, and can be drawn fro ma wider pool of candidates as they don't need to be the same tier of quality as doctors.
which also means less people doing training rotations in hospitals which means you have more hospital (or the new second tier role the current GP will be playing) doctors as less are wasted in GP roles which could reduce waiting times/improve hospital care.
A doctor signing off on repeat prescriptions and minor things is a waste of their skills and reduces patient care because people who actually really
need a doctor can't get an appointment.