Internationally, the delivery of health services has shifted from secondary to primary care, necessitating an exponential growth of the nursing workforce and expansion of the nursing role in general practice. This growth, and the subsequent need to develop this workforce, has created a need to expose undergraduate nurses to general practice nursing as a viable career option. Concurrently, unive...

BACKGROUND General practice-based data, collected within general practice registration networks (GPRNs), are widely used in research. The quality of the data is important but the recording criteria about what type of information is collected and how this information should be recorded differ between GPRNs. OBJECTIVE We aim to identify aspects that describe the quality of general practice-base...

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The importance of the developmental surveillance of children is generally accepted. One method which could be used in general practice is opportunistic surveillance, where the doctor makes use of contacts with children in the surgery to assess their development, and offer advice and health education to parents where appropriate. This study describes an audit of opportunistic developmental surve...

This study was undertaken to assess the feasibility of one method of initiating the setting of standards in United Kingdom general practice by the development and selection of criteria for clinical care. Three clinical topics were chosen. An 'academic phase' was used to develop precise criteria, which formed the basis of a draft questionnaire for each of the three topics. A 'consultation phase'...

Inequalities1 reflected on evidence from the 2010 Marmot Review,2 which concluded that, in England, people living in the poorest neighbourhoods will, on average, die 7 years earlier than people living in the richest. Furthermore, the average difference in disability-free life is 17 years; thus, people in poorer areas not only die sooner, but they will also spend more of their shorter lives with...

A minimum basic data set (MBDS) was designed and used in general practice. The most important purpose and need for establishing such a data set is to assist in the provision of patient care. MBDS is designed to meet common needs for many general practitioners. Minimum means that individual programmes or the GP are free to collect as much additional data as they may wish. The MBDS includes two k...