An appointment system service for general practitioners: its growth and present usage.

This paper provides an analysis of the use to which a particular appointment system service given to N.H.S. general practitioners has been put during the past seven years. The launching of the service was undertaken not with the idea that it would provide subsequent material for research but solely to help general practitioners. Nevertheless, this retrospective approach does provide information which will, I believe, be of interest to those concerned with the changing pattern of general practice in this country.