Community general practitioners.

Community general practitioners.

Commemorating a giant figure whose memory is still fresh to many is a heavy responsibility. Pat Byrne was a plebeian and rejoiced in the plebs' victory represented by the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948. In 30 years of practice in Milnethorpe, a market town and former seaport of Westmoreland, Pat developed the ideal of personal, continuing primary care of the highest clinica...

How do general practitioners manage eye disease in the community?

A survey of the management of eye disease in the community was carried out in two general practices over a three-month period. During this time there were 238 consultations by patients with ocular symptoms, making up 2.3% of all consultations and giving an annual consultation rate for eye disease of 66 per 1000 persons at risk. The four commonest diagnoses were bacterial conjunctivitis, allergi...

General practitioners and community pharmacists: times they are a-changing.

Management of community-acquired pneumonia by trained family general practitioners.

SETTING Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a respiratory health disease with a high prevalence in the general population. Family general practitioners (GPs) can play an important role in CAP management by reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and, consequently, national health costs. OBJECTIVE To assess CAP management by trained GPs. DESIGN A course in CAP management, including a risk...

General practitioners' practice expenses.

General practitioners are unlikely to receive the exact level of remuneration recommended in the 16th report of the doctors' and dentists' review body' even if the level was accepted in full by the government and implemented from 1 April. This alarming sounding position is so because general practitioners' remuneration is a series of fees and allowances designed to produce an average income acr...