Contribution of general practitioner hospitals in Scotland.

A study of general-practitioner consultations in North-east Scotland.

General practitioner hospitals: coming or going?

Papers in the last four weeks' issues of the BMJ raise again a question which has smouldered since the early 1960s. At that time the Department of Health's policy favoured the elimination of small, peripheral hospitals and the concentration of acute services in large, central district general hospitals. Opinions on the place of general practitioner hospitals still differ, but these four papers ...

The contribution of the general practitioner to undergraduate medical education.

1. The place of the general practitioner in medical care. 2. The meaning of basic medical education. 3. The reasons why a contribution from general practice is needed in the basic education of all doctors. 4. The nature of the contribution, in outline and in detail. This is presented as a range of content from which any medical school can choose. 5. The way in which this contribution differs fr...

Cluster randomized trials of prescription medicines or prescribing policy: public and general practitioner opinions in Scotland

AIMS To understand public and general practitioner (GP) opinion on the acceptability of randomized policy design (RPD) studies (cluster randomized trials) of prescription medicines in Scotland. METHODS We surveyed public opinion on the concept of RPD studies in a sample of 1040 adults to determine acceptability and understand how people feel when changes are made to their medicines. We also s...

General Practitioner Issues: Myocardial Infarction (1)

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