Primary care: opportunities and threats. Broader teamwork in primary care
Kendrick, T. and Hilton, S. (1997) Primary care: opportunities and threats. Broader teamwork in primary care. British Medical of Journal, 314, (7081), 672-675.
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The new white papers on primary care present opportunities for general practices to extend and develop their services to patients. These could enhance professional roles within practices and lead to new partnerships with secondary care, community health services, and social services. Two examples of new services are outlined: a practice led proposal to develop an integrated service for people with learning disability across a whole district, and a community health trust's contribution to extended primary care in an inner city area. For patients, the potential advantages of the reforms include more comprehensive and more integrated care in the community. The possible pitfalls of changing contractual arrangements include threats to the gatekeeping function of the referral system and, more fundamentally, to the central role general practice currently has in primary care in the United Kingdom.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0959-8138 (print) |
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| Keywords: | primary health care, primary care, health care reform, general-practice, state medicine, general practice, humans, family practice, organization & administration, London, practice management, interprofessional relations, urban health services, primary-care,care, Great Britain, medical |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine |
| Item ID: | 61859 |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2013 18:21 |
| Contributors: | Kendrick, T. (Author) Hilton, S. (Author) |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/61859 |
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