Singlehanded general practitioners and community care.

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...

Teamwork in primary care: perspectives of general practitioners and community nurses in Lithuania

BACKGROUND A team approach in primary care has proven benefits in achieving better outcomes, reducing health care costs, satisfying patient needs, ensuring continuity of care, increasing job satisfaction among health providers and using human health care resources more efficiently. However, some research indicates constraints in collaboration within primary health care (PHC) teams in Lithuania....

General practitioners' perceptions of effective health care.

OBJECTIVES To explore general practitioners' perceptions of effective health care and its application in their own practice; to examine how these perceptions relate to assumptions about clinicians' values and behaviour implicit in the evidence based medicine approach. DESIGN A qualitative study using semistructured interviews. SETTING Eight general practices in North Thames region that were...

General practitioners and community pharmacists: times they are a-changing.

Preconception care by family physicians and general practitioners in Japan

BACKGROUND Preconception care provided by family physicians/general practitioners (FP/GPs) can provide predictable benefits to mothers and infants. The objective of this study was to elucidate knowledge of, attitudes about, and practices of preconception care by FP/GPs in Japan. METHODS A survey was distributed to physician members of the Japanese Academy of Family Medicine. The questionnaire...