The Belfast experiment in direct access to contrast radiography.

The general practitioner working in his consulting room or his patient's home has a strictly limited range of diagnostic facilities available to supplement his clinical skills and experience. As long ago as 1946 the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association recommended that wherever possible, hospital departments of pathology and radiology should give direct access facilities to general practitioners. In spite of this, the 'open door' department has been slow to materialise.