General Practitioners Were Neglected

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...

College of General Practitioners

College of General Practitioners

Women general practitioners.

Sir, I think the Journal was right to publish the interesting article by Dr K. Williams (January Journal, p.33), based on a study of 500 women years, particularly as this must roughly correspond to the number of women 'on the Pill' in many practices. In my opinion, there was a great enough number of patients with chest pain in the study for the conclusion to be valid. I agreed that it does not ...

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...