Primary care research network progress in Scotland

Primary care research network progress in Scotland.

Many developed industrialized countries perceive considerable value in developing practice based research networks. In this paper, the development of the Scottish Primary Care Research Network (SPCRN) from 1924-2013 is described. After a false start in the early twentieth century and some local developments 10-15 years ago, the Scottish Primary Care Research Network was finally built upon exist...

Care provision in Scotland: background, policy context and research.

Demographic changes present considerable challenges to the way that health and social care for older people are funded and organised (Bernard and Phillips 2000). They mean not only an increase in the number of older people using services, but also significant changes in the kind of services they require. The standard of care offered to older people in the UK has caused increasing concern within...

Building a primary care research network – lessons to learn

African Primary Care Research: Qualitative interviewing in primary care

This article is part of a series on African Primary Care Research and focuses on the topic of qualitative interviewing in primary care. In particular it looks at issues of study design, sample size, sampling and interviewing in relation to individual and focus group interviews.There is a particular focus on helping postgraduate students at a Masters level to write their research proposals.

Primary care research ethics.

Research activity in primary care is increasing rapidly, and raises a range of specific ethical issues. Many of these relate to the involvement of individuals in the community who are not seeking medical care and to the impact of research participation on relationships between general practitioners and their patients. The ethical issues pertinent to a range of quantitative and qualitative resea...