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According the NHS guidance, every Care Home in England should now have a dedicated GP surgery assigned to it.
The GP is meant to visit the home every week, get to know the residents and help avoid any unnecessary hospital admissions.
Before Covid, we visited 24 Care Homes in Medway to see for ourselves how this new GP service was working and what the benefits were.
60% of care homes had a GP who visited regularly
Five homes didn’t have regular GP visits
60% of staff spoke positively about the improvements for residents since the enhanced GP service started
52% of homes didn’t have a dentist who visited residents regularly

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