Rationale behind the General Medical Council's proposed new procedure for the assessment of doctors' performance.

6 Psychiatric morbidity among children who are frequent attenders in general practice Frank M Bowman andM Elena Garralda 10 Comparison of the use of a dry chemistry analyser in primary care in Norway and the United Kingdom Geir Thue, Sverre Sandberg and David G Bullock 15 Study of 500 patients attending an osteopathic practice Mike Pringle and Stephen Tyreman 19 Postgraduate education allowance: educational attainment of subscribers and non-subscribers to a centrally organized educational scheme T S Murray, G S Dyker and L M Campbell 22 Evaluation of the diagnostic value of pneumatic otoscopy in primary care using the results of tympanometry as a reference standard R A de Melker 25 Attitudes towards practice nurses survey of a sample of general practitioners in England and Wales Geoff Robinson, Steve Beaton and Peter White