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Primary care: opportunities and threats. Broader teamwork in primary care

Primary care: opportunities and threats. Broader teamwork in primary care
Primary care: opportunities and threats. Broader teamwork in primary care
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.
0959-8138
672-675
Kendrick, T.
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Hilton, S.
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Kendrick, T.
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Hilton, S.
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Kendrick, T. and Hilton, S. (1997) Primary care: opportunities and threats. Broader teamwork in primary care. BMJ, 314, 672-675. (doi:10.1136/bmj.314.7081.672). (PMID:9066488)

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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.

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Published date: 1997
Organisations: Primary Care & Population Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 61859
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/61859
ISSN: 0959-8138
PURE UUID: 31104303-16e6-43a5-8821-1d3465487c8e
ORCID for T. Kendrick: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1618-9381

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Date deposited: 03 Sep 2008
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:00

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Author: T. Kendrick ORCID iD
Author: S. Hilton

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