Funding, franchising, and effective primary care.

Primary care funding, contract status, and outcomes: an observational study.

BACKGROUND The introduction of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) provides a quantitative way of assessing quality of care in general practice. We explore the achievements of general practice in the first year of the QOF, with specific reference to practice funding and contract status. AIM To determine the extent to which differences in funding and contract status affect quality in prim...

NHMRC funding for primary care research 2000-2008.

Primary care reform: is it time for population-based funding?

LA RÉFORME DES SOINS MÉDICAUX PRIMAIRES AU CANADA attire de plus en plus d’attention, surtout de la part des gouvernements préoccupés par les coûts imprévisibles et la mauvaise répartition des médecins. La mise en oeuvre d’un mode de financement fondé sur la population suscite beaucoup d’intérêt. La capitation et l’inscription sont répandues dans certains pays d’Europe, mais les données probant...

Funding research in primary care: is Culyer the remedy?

I in research and development (R&D) should be informed by the white paper Primary care: delivering the future, which identified the need to address three areas: funding arrangements, infrastructure, and ensuring that research findings are relevant and taken up by professionals in their everyday work.1 It also emphasized that an evidence-based health service requires some understanding of R&D on...

Effective clinical learning in primary care settings.

This article reviews the literature on primary care settings as learning environments, and examines how the learning opportunities available for nurses and students can be recognised and harnessed. The aim is to establish the effectiveness of primary care settings as learning environments. This article also discusses mentoring experiences of district nurses, school nurses and health visitors.