Counterprivates: An Appeal to Rethink Suburban Interiority

An Appeal

An Appeal

and the College is recognised as a "School of Science" by the Committee of the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. Ten medical scholarships at the hospital schools in London, ranging iu value from 90 to 1>">5 guineas and six scholarships of ?15 each for one year tenable in the school, are competed for annually, besides several exhibitions and scholarships varying fr...

An Appeal

Audit: time to rethink

Editorial Audit: time to rethink Doctors carry out 20,000 audit projects each year. This will have cost the NHS £834 million by the end of the century.1 What is the benefit to patients? Most clinicians would immediately reply "very little". The NHS Executive is more guarded in reply, but, tellingly, has commissioned more research on the value of audit. The NHS Audit Initiative was formally laun...

Time to rethink continuity.

Continuity of care is a value that lies at the very heart of family medicine. It is one of those powerful, traditional values of general practice that we have accepted as being at the centre of our discipline. It refers to a continuous relationship between one physician and one patient over an extended period. It sometimes involves contact through many illnesses and life challenges. Research ha...