Depression management clinics in general practice?

Recognition and management of depression in general practice: consensus statement.

Depression is a frequently occurring psychiatric disorder , and most depressed patients in the United Kingdom are treated in general practice. The Royal College of Psychiatrists, in association with the Royal College of General Practitioners, has embarked on a "defeat depression" campaign.' Anticipating that an increased proportion of the large numbers of the general population who do not at pr...

Clinics in general practice. An addiction to drug treatment.

Clinics in general practice. A case for the gynaecologist?

The case of a 31-year-old female patient with 2 children who was sterilized 7 years ago at age 24 years and has a 3-year history of low bilateral abdominal pain is discussed. The patient was investigated at the surgical outpatient department and has been recommended to a gynecologist. The symptoms lack suggestion of gynecological disease. Some of the questions to be asked are why she was ste...

Specialist outreach clinics in general practice: what do they offer?

BACKGROUND Specialist outreach clinics in general practice, in which hospital-based specialists hold outpatient clinics in general practitioners' (GPs) surgeries, are one example of a shift in services from secondary to primary care. AIM To describe specialist outreach clinics held in fundholding general practices in two specialties from the perspective of patients, GPs, and consultants, and ...

[Treatment of depression in general practice].

With the co-operation of the family doctors in five selected urban general practices the general-practitioner treatment of 73 patients suffering from a new episode of depressive illness was evaluated over a period of four months. The purpose was to test the belief that general practitioners are best fitted to manage most psychological ailments, and depression was chosen as the psychiatric illne...