1st Edition

Extending Primary Care Polyclinics, Resource Centres, Hospital-at-Home

By Pat Gordon, Janet Hadley Copyright 1996
136 Pages
by CRC Press

136 Pages
by CRC Press

'Fundamental changes in the Health Service demand a radical shift in approaches to patient core. The NHS is becoming increasingly led by the primary care sector. This has a greater meaning than simply more involvement of GPs in secondary care purchasing. It means that we start from where the patient is, in their own home and community. We provide care for them there and only move them into... Read more
1. Primary health care – its characteristics and potential 2. Boundaries in primary health care 3. Primary care resource centres – a means of supporting general practice? 4. Polyclinics – an alternative to practice-based care? 5. Hospital care at home

Biography

Pat Gordon (Edited by) Janet Hadley (Edited by)