Do the NHS really need " General Practitioners"? - If You Think for a Moment About What They Do
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0.000 HBDDo the NHS really need " General Practitioners"? - If You Think for a Moment About What They Do
 [Image Credits](https://www.google.com.pk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.independent.co.uk%2Fs3fs-public%2Fthumbnails%2Fimage%2F2015%2F12%2F05%2F19%2F2-NHS-hopsital-afpget.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fpolitics%2Fnhs-humanitarian-crisis-private-health-insurance-cuts-privatisation-a7523941.html&docid=SJcv8o45Se-hsM&tbnid=kZMODD8cd9rWWM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiUn-Drl7LYAhXQxqQKHQ_GADI4ZBAzCBMoETAR..i&w=2048&h=1536&bih=662&biw=1366&q=nhs&ved=0ahUKEwiUn-Drl7LYAhXQxqQKHQ_GADI4ZBAzCBMoETAR&iact=mrc&uact=8) Do the NHS really need **" General Practitioners"**? - If you think for a moment about what they do - You go to a doctors surgery, explain your symptoms to the doctor and if it's anything more than a common cold you will see them Googling your symptoms or looking on Wikipedia or somewhere else. Then they'll ask you to go for a blood-test or some other sort of test. And these General Practitioners are on `£80k` a year. I would like to suggest instead an automated computer system operating across a neural network where if you feel something is wrong you log in using your own passwords (with security to your own account the same you get with a bank), then you list your symptoms and the system may ask you a few other questions to wwhichyou answer and then the system asks you to go for a urine or a blood-test or something similar which is done by nurses (the back-bone of the NHS who are over-worked and under-paid). The results of such tests are fed into the central computer system and then let the neural-net then decide which specialist you ought to see or if additional tests are required. ### Now lets put things into perspective in terms of costing such a project There are in the UK approximately `6.95` General Practitioners in the UK for every `10,000` people. The population of the UK is `65.64 million`. This means there are `45,620 GPs` in the United Kingdom each on a `£80k` a year salary. This costs the NHS `3,649,584,000` a year `(£3.6 Billion)`. Lets cut that in half and give half to the nurses of the NHS who deserves a pay rise given the hard work that they do. That leaves `£1,824,792,000` to play with. Now lets over estimate and say that the setup and maintenance costs of a centralized NHS Neural-Net costs `£500 Million` a year. The beauty of running the system using a Neural-Net? Whilst patient data remains confidential to that patient, the Neural-Net will learn and get better and better over time until diagnosis are absolutely spot-on. The NHS will still have saved well over `£1 Billion` year-on-year. > ***What do you think? Your views will be very much appreciated.*** Thanks <center></center>