Practice policies for responding to patients with chest pain.

more talking (or perhaps listening) treatment and less drug therapy for emotional problems and disorders.22 Practices up and down the country are increasingly providing these services. General practitioners and family health services authorities are becoming better informed about how to ensure a high standard of counselling. Counselling training organizers are beginning to meet the real needs of primary care counsellors through both training and continuing education. Michael Balint would surely have approved of these developments.