Description
General Practitioner with Special Interest
(GPwSI) is one of the pledges made by the Government
to formalise the role of specialists in Primary Care to
minimise hospital referrals and take pressure off
secondary care. Although, there are guidelines for
appointment of GPwSI in clinical areas there are none
available for GPwSI in Public Health. In this article
we describe the Walsall experience and highlight the
role of GPwSI in public health by describing some
of the work done by them in certain key areas of public
health practice. This article describes the benefits of
having GPwSI in public health, the challenges faced
in commissioning GPwSIs in public health practice
and makes recommendations for popularising them,
including methods for accreditation.
