GENERAL PRACTICE AND HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS.

Patients' difficulties in obtaining appointments--a general practice audit.

Information on delays in obtaining appointments in a city practice was collected. The results showed that although overall 89% of patients could be offered appointments with one of the doctors by the next day, only 60% chose to accept one, the remainder electing to wait for a particular doctor or surgery time. When patients making urgent requests for appointments were analysed separately, it wa...

Actual availability of general practice appointments for mildly ill children.

OBJECTIVE To determine actual availability and cost of general practitioner appointments for children with conditions of low acuity and low urgency, from the perspective of the child's family. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING A "secret shopper" method, whereby research assistants posing as parents seeking appointments for mildly ill children telephoned a random sample of 225 general practice ...

Hospital and General Practice Level

Attachments in general practice for hospital trainees.

whom she (solely) confided, who insisted that this could be dangerous and referred to the episode of Casualty, which had been screened the previous week. It was only when the friend detailed the fate of the young girl in the television series, who had taken an overdose of paracetamol and progressed to liver failure, that our patient reluctantly agreed to go to hospital. This patient had not vie...

Factors associated with nonattendance at clinical medicine scheduled outpatient appointments in a university general hospital

INTRODUCTION Nonattendance at scheduled outpatient appointments for primary care is a major health care problem worldwide. Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of nonattendance at scheduled appointments for outpatients seeking primary care, to identify associated factors and build a model that predicts nonattendance at scheduled appointments. METHODS A cohort study of adult patients, who ha...