All Change: What is Happening in NHS General Practice?
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
ISSN: 0952-6862
Article publication date: 1 January 1992
Abstract
Considers the changes which are being implemented in primary care, and the patterns which are now beginning to emerge. Examines the changing context within which practices now function (both political and managerial), and considers the power which GPs are beginning to exert, as well as the impact which they may have on the interface between primary and secondary care. Examines the systems being developed for assuring quality in general practice. Predicts an explosion in the need for appropriate information for management and for medical audit in UK primary care, because the context within which general practitioners (GPs) deliver primary care in the NHS is changing rapidly. It is only now becoming evident that this turbulence may well offer major new opportunities to GPs, as well as permanently altering the balance of power in the NHS between primary and secondary care.
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Citation
Szczepura, A. (1992), "All Change: What is Happening in NHS General Practice?", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 5 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/09526869210008158
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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