Patients are hungry to access primary care in a retail clinic or pharmacy, with their trust in advanced practice providers going up, survey data shows.
– In five years, primary care access might not be defined by walking into a traditional brick-and-mortar clinic—not if consumers have anything to do about it, according to a new report commissioned by Wolters Kluwer Health. Instead, primary care access will rest with retail clinics and pharmacies, 61 percent of survey respondents said.