Partnership changes in English general practice from 1990 to 1994

Changes in general practice organization: survey of general practitioners' views on the 1990 contract and fundholding.

BACKGROUND General practitioners' views on two major changes in the organization of general practice--the 1990 contract for general practitioners and fundholding, introduced in 1991--have not been researched in any great detail. AIM A study in 1993 sought to investigate the views of general practitioners from group practices and of single-handed general practitioners, in family health service...

A final g'day to English general practice.

Patients becoming ill outside fairly standard office hours are no longer assessed by their doctor or his or her partner. Patients in many parts of the country can choose primary care walk-in clinics if this is geographically or otherwise more convenient for them than their registered practice. Within their own practice, patients may see different practitioners (and sometimes nurses rather than ...

Partnership in general practice: what chance a future?

Attachment of physician's assistant to an English general practice.

A final-year student from the physician's associate programme at Duke University in North Carolina, USA, worked in an English health centre for eight weeks between May and July. He managed 221 cases under supervision, and they were typical in terms of sex ratio, diagnosis, and the preponderance of children. Current social and economic trends in Britain suggest that selective under-doctoring, es...

Epidemiology of inclusion body hepatitis in poultry in northern India from 1990 to 1994.

The epidemiology of inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) was studied in poultry in northern India, from April 1990 to March 1994, to evaluate the various factors responsible for causing and determining the severity of the disease. Broiler chicks and Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were the species examined. The factor observed to be most commonly associated with IBH was the presence of af...