Predicting the future of primary care…

Primary Care in the Future

Professor Stott began by reminding us that Bristol is the last University in the U.K. to "recognise that academic Primary Care exists" and he said "it does great credit to the Bristol GPs that they had helped to fund the new department". The NHS was built around a generalist service supported by specialists and the U.K. had played a major formative role in the emergence of primary health care w...

The future of primary health care.

A few additional specialist facilities might be developed both in prisons and in hospitals to promote research and training. But it would be a brave psychiatrist outside the special hospitals who took on the responsibility for a specialist unit for psychopaths in the current climate. The Mental Health Act 1983 places responsibilities on psychiatrists that in many cases cannot be fulfilled. Psyc...

Diabetes care: model for the future of primary care.

OBJECTIVE To review relevant trends threatening primary care and the evidence supporting use of nonphysicians in primary and chronic care of patients with diabetes. DATA SOURCES Current medical and pharmacy literature as selected by authors. SUMMARY The care needed by patients with diabetes does not fit well into our current medical model for primary care, and an adequate supply of physicia...

The Future : Pharmacogenetics in Primary Care

To reveal any potential bias in this publication, and in accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education guidelines, Dr. Hocum (author) reports he is a stockholder and clinical pharmacist at Genelex Corporation. Dr. Kitzmiller (peer reviewer) reports he receives grant/research support from the National Institues of Health and is a retained consultant for Ohio Clinical Tri...

The future for primary care computing.