WHO: Czech GPs, nurses' power should be expanded

Czech general practitioners should see their powers expanded and share it with assisting nurses, the Czech J. E. Purkyne Medical Association has written in a press release after a Prague meeting of the Visegrad Four (V4) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) officials. The V4 countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) all face a shortage of doctors and nurses. The WHO recommends creating teams of primary care in which the role of nurses would be enhanced and their powers expanded.