The general practitioners' work load.

Work load in general practice.

ALTHOUGH SEVERAL STUDIES HAVE ALREADY been made on this subject, e.g. Bradford Hill (1951), Fry and Dillane (1964), College of General Practitioners (1965), our information is far from complete, and this quantitative study in a relatively large list, outer suburban London practice may fill some of the gaps. At the same time the value to me has been to highlight the inefficiency of conventional ...

How hard do general practitioners work?

assessment of the so called "avoidable factors" as in the Confidential Inquiry into Maternal Deaths.'4 This raises two problems. Firstly, the concept of avoidability, like that of causality, is highly subjective. Secondly, no one can know whether the absence of the "avoidable" factor would have prevented the death; indeed, the Northern region working party abandoned its search for "avoidable" f...

Emotionally exhausting factors in general practitioners’ work

BACKGROUND Emotional exhaustion is central in burnout syndrome and signals its development. General practitioners' (GP) work is emotionally challenging but research on these aspects is lacking. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of emotional exhaustion among GPs and to evaluate how their characteristics and work experiences are associated with emotional exhaustion. DESIGN AND METHODS A quest...

The College of General Practitioners.

General practitioners' practice expenses.

General practitioners are unlikely to receive the exact level of remuneration recommended in the 16th report of the doctors' and dentists' review body' even if the level was accepted in full by the government and implemented from 1 April. This alarming sounding position is so because general practitioners' remuneration is a series of fees and allowances designed to produce an average income acr...