Maggie's Centres

Community Centres

Health centres.

In one Inner London health district many doctors seemed reluctant to work in health centres. To investigate the reasons, 44 general practitioners in two matched groups were inter¬ viewed. Those working in health centres appre¬ ciated the advantages of pleasant premises and the presence of a primary health care team. Other doctors believed health centres were dis¬ liked by patients, were bureauc...

A NORM INEQUALITY FOR CHEBYSHEV CENTRES

In this paper, we study the Chebyshev centres of bounded subsets of normed spaces and obtain a norm inequality for relative centres. In particular, we prove that if T is a remotal subset of an inner product space H, and F is a star-shaped set at a relative Chebyshev centre c of T with respect to F, then llx - qT (x)1I2 2 Ilx-cll2 + Ilc-qT (c) 112 x E F, where qT : F + T is any choice functi...

Urgent care centres.

Although the growth of urgent care centres in the past 5 years has been phenomenal (180 urgent care centres in 1980; in excess of 3000 urgent care centres in 1985), they have been in existence since the early 1970s. Astute physicians, many of them involved in emergency medicine, saw that a significant percentage of the patient population utilizing hospital-based emergency departments consisted ...

Tele-centres in Ghana

Tele-centres offer a low cost opportunity for the many who cannot afford their own phone or Internet connection. This paper presents a field study of tele-centres in Ghana and analyses how they contribute to universal access. 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.