I’ve treated an adult with serologically proven measles. It really is not a benign disease, his behaviour was reckless ( if he actually had measles which is questionable ).

Lot of bunting flying there!

Interesting, but probably need a critical review of the work on which the letter is based before changing overall approach.

This is a theme I’ve heard repeatedly over the years, accompanied by a progressive disinvestment in the community and a shift in resources to hospitals

Please post link to you tube, I’m at ten years 😂

Fair point, I do remember a paper years ago, I think by Nigel Stott et al, looking at patients views around when they felt it appropriate to receive opportunistic health promotion which changed my practice.

I don’t disagree, I’d be interested to hear of one piece of qualitative research that changed your practice?

Staffing shortages and massive demand has pushed primary care into being a reactive service dealing with acute presentations, leaving the highly effective evidence based management of chronic illness lagging way behind. The consequences are there to be seen.

Simply tying to control the narrative in advance of whatever emerges when he is cross examined at the inquiry. The question is why are the mainstream media facilitating this?