Funding and focus must shift to general practice to revolutionise patient care. RCGP responds to new report from the King’s Fund calling for the rebalancing of NHS funding towards primary and community services. Professor Kamila Hawthorne, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said “General practice is the bedrock of the NHS, the first port of call for most patients and where most NHS patients receive their care. "Strong general practice that is properly funded, properly resourced, and properly supported can be the solution to so many of the problems currently besetting the NHS - we can keep people well close to home, prevent serious illness through early intervention, and help keep more people away from hospitals all together. “But for too long governments have dealt with the incredible pressure across the whole of the NHS by directing the majority of funding into hospitals to tackle one crisis after another. "We understand the pressures our hospital colleagues are under, but we gre...