Out of hours care

Out of hours care.

I ncreasingly the future organisation of paediatrics at secondary level, the place of first referral, depends greatly on the organisation and quality of care at primary level. The ability of paediatricians to influence primary child health care is limited at present to advocacy and training, but recently some have been expressing the view that we in the UK should follow US and European practice...

Providing out of hours urgent care.

The need to improve the interface between in-hours and out-of-hours GP care, and between out-of-hours care and self-care.

BACKGROUND considerable changes have occurred over the last 5 years in the organization of out-of-hours care in the UK. Users' experiences of their care are an important part of 'quality of care' and are valuable for identifying areas for improvement. AIM to identify strengths and weaknesses of out-of hours service provision in Wales. The design of the study is a cross-sectional survey. The s...

Out-of-hours primary care. Implications of organisation on costs

BACKGROUND To perform out-of-hours primary care, Dutch general practitioners (GPs) have organised themselves in large-scale GP cooperatives. Roughly, two models of out-of-hours care can be distinguished; GP cooperatives working separate from the hospital emergency department (ED) and GP cooperatives integrated with the hospital ED. Research has shown differences in care utilisation between thes...

Consumption in out-of-hours health care: Danes double Dutch?

OBJECTIVE To study the quantitative consumption in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care in Denmark and the Netherlands, in the context of OOH care services. DESIGN A retrospective observational study describing contacts with OOH care services, using registration data. SETTING OOH care services (i.e. OOH primary care, emergency department, and ambulance care) in one Danish and one Dutch region. ...