GP surgeries with poor access told to improve

Contacting GP surgeries over Christmas

Editor—A more plausible interpretation of the data presented by Rouse is that his researcher did not allow the telephone to ring for sufficient time to allow a member of the practice staff to answer it. The table shows that the researcher made around 270 telephone calls to the 91 practices in the three days before Christmas. This equates to an average of one call every 4 minutes. In reality, th...

Health centres and GP surgeries should provide bicycle parking.

pharmaceutical strategic purchasing: a key to improve access to medicines

pharmaceuticals are often considered as the most significant cost driver of health care expenditures and at the same time have a major impact on patients’ curative processes and outcomes. other pieces of evidence emphasize that drugs are the input for the production of good health. they are considered as the most important and expensive element in the healthy supply chain and are more associate...

Commentary: will generic drug stores improve access to essential medicines for the poor in India?

Policymakers in developing countries are challenged to increase the availability and affordability of essential medicines. To improve access to medicines, the Government of India recently opened Generic Drug Stores in a few public facilities. These stores sell generic medicines manufactured by the public sector manufacturers. The prices are lower than market price. We examine the premise of the...

GP non-principals' education: let's improve access for our flexible friends.