Quick Covid-19 Primary Care Survey, Series 34

Abstract

The stresses and adaptive responses of primary care have remained consistent over the last 12-month period. Questions repeated from surveys fielded November 2020 and April 2021 show a primary care workforce that has continued to expand services for patients, establish meaningful community partnerships, and increase volunteerism, despite lack of systemic relief from pandemic-induced hardships. However, primary care is overstretched. That only 6 in 10 clinicians report having conducted well child visits and having kept pace with routine childhood immunizations is cause for concern. Just over half of respondents (51%) reported accepting new patients from now closed practices.