BACKGROUND The Gateway Clinic is a specialist NHS service in South London providing acupuncture and Chinese medicine. The clinic receives a diverse range of referrals from an expanding population of local general practitioners (GPs). OBJECTIVES This study explores the referral behaviour of GPs and other primary care users of the Gateway Clinic. METHODS A pragmatic mixed-methods approach was...

OBJECTIVES To assess the views of the general public and general practitioners (GPs) on the General Medical Council's Good Medical Practice. METHODS A large national consumer survey organization (MORI) was commissioned to conduct a survey of a representative sample of the general public using quota sampling methods with randomly selected sampling points across Great Britain. A similar survey ...

Guidelines urge general practitioners (GPs) to discuss smoking with patients as frequently as possible. Using data collected before and after consultations, this study confirms that GPs are more likely to discuss smoking in the context of smoking-related problems. Encouraging GPs to make greater use of problem-orientated opportunities to discuss smoking may have more effect on rates of advice g...

A pioneering study aimed to quantify general practitioners' (GPs') knowledge of cases of elder abuse in the community. The research found that elder abuse is a problem encountered by GPs, and that a large majority of responders would welcome training in the identification and management of the problem.

For patients suffering from allergic rhinitis (AR), general practitioners (GPs) are often their first source of medical advice. It is one of the top-ten reasons for a visit to the primary care clinics and AR was estimated to be 10-40% of the total patient visits in about 50% of the primary care clinics. The standard of management for AR among GPs is thus a key outcome assessment of AR managemen...

In this demonstration we present the Khresmoi medical search and access system. The system uses a component based architecture housed in the cloud to support target users medical information needs. This includes web systems, computer applications and mobile applications to support the multilingual and multimodal information needs of three test target groups: the general public, general practiti...

Background: General Practitioners have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality. Objectives: We investigate whether GPs exhibit different prescribing behavior (volume and value of prescriptions) when confronted with more competition. As there is no monetary benefit in doing so, th...

Methods: The Behaviour Change Wheel was used as the theoretical framework for analysing potential barriers which could make general practitioners (GPs) reluctant towards iFOBT use. An initial intervention model was developed and pilot-tested among GPs in the Central Denmark Region. Finally, the intervention was adjusted according to GPs experiences in the pilot period. Results: Three elements w...

Introduction: Medical practitioners provide pre-employment examinations and periodic health examinations to seafarers, fishermen, offshore employees, and maritime students to ensure that they are fit for work. So far, very little is known about doctors’ perceptions of their professional training needs and expectations. The objective of this study was to gain insight on (a</...

OBJECTIVES To improve education and information for general practitioners in relation to rational antibiotic prescribing for urinary tract infection (UTI), it is important to be aware of GPs' views of resistance and how it influences their choice of UTI treatment. The aim of this study was to explore variations in views of resistance and UTI treatment decisions among general practitioners (GPs)...