London Journal of Primary Care – a PAUSE

Is primary care ready to embrace e-health? A qualitative study of staff in a London primary care trust.

OBJECTIVES e-Health refers to the organisation and delivery of health services and information using the internet and related technologies. We investigated the perceptions of primary care staff towards e-health initiatives in the NHS Connecting for Health programme and whether front-line staff are ready to implement such changes. DESIGN Twenty participants from different professional groups w...

Primary health care in London--changes since the Acheson report.

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in primary care in London in the 11 years since the Acheson report on primary health care in inner London. DESIGN Analysis of key data from the family health services authority performance indicators and from the Department of Health; study of trends since the time of the Acheson report; examination of the provision of primary care in 1990-1 and its relation to he...

Primary care in inner London: inadequate and exposed.

How are primary care groups approaching clinical governance? A review of clinical governance plans from primary care groups in London.

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate how primary care groups (PCGs) were implementing clinical governance in their first year. METHODS A structured review was carried out of clinical governance plans of 57 PCGs in London. RESULTS There was considerable variation in content of the plans. Priority areas were generally based on national service frameworks and local health improv...

Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care: one journal, two audiences

Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care (OMPC) enters its fourth year of operation in 2010 under the umbrella of BioMed Central. Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care strives to promote and advance research and scholarly work within the fields of osteopathic medicine and primary care. In so doing, OMPC welcomes submissions from clinicians within both the osteopathic and allopathic medical profess...