Developing primary care research: primary care trusts – a natural home?

Developing primary care: the contribution of primary care research networks.

The performance of Canada's primary care sector remains lacklustre relative to other wealthy industrialized countries, and it has been suggested that a lack of investment in research and evaluation may be a cause. One approach to improving and sustaining primary care research is through research networks. Over the past few years, significant investments have begun to be made in developing prima...

Will primary care trusts lead to US-style health care?

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Developing primary care informatics.

This issue of Informatics in Primary Care adds to our knowledge base, setting out how we might develop the use of IT in family practice. The issue contains a number of thought provoking articles about what influences the uptake of IT, how it can catalyse change and our expectations for the next generation of electronic patient records as well as insights into how computerised decision support a...

Developing primary health care.

Primary health care is best provided by a primary health care team of general practitioners, community nurses, and other staff working together from good premises and looking after the population registered with the practice. It encourages personal and continuing care of patients and good communication among the members of the team. Efforts should be made to foster this model of primary care wh...

A comparison of English primary care trusts Preliminary statistical analysis