Sir David Bruce lecture 1993. The primary care team.

Introduction It is a great honour to be asked to give this year's David Bruce lecture and to have the opportunity of meeting so many friends friends I have come to know during the time I have been involved with the Defence Medical Services. It was exactly 15 years ago this Sunday that I first made the acquaintance of doctors working in the Armed Forces and it was in this building John Lawson, Alastair Donald, and myself had arrived to spend the night before flying out the next day to conduct the second Joint Committee visit to Germany. I recall that we dined with General Reay, the Commandant at Millbank at the time. I also recall meeting a number of others who were to feature in my subsequent life including Ken Young, the first Director of Army General Practice, and Harvey Mason who was then Command Adviser in General Practice in BAOR. There was also Mark Conroy who, on the day we met him told us he was simultaneously a trainee, trainer and Course Organiser. You will, I think, understand my confusion with some aspects of the Services which it has taken some years to unravel.