Joanne Reeve, Christopher F Dowrick, George K Freeman, Jane Gunn, Frances Mair, Carl May, Stewart Mercer, Victoria Palmer, Amanda Howe, Greg Irving, Alice Shiner, Jessica Watson
OBJECTIVES: Provision of person-centred generalist care is a core component of quality primary care systems. The World Health Organisation believes that a lack of generalist primary care is contributing to inefficiency, ineffectiveness and inequity in healthcare. In UK primary care, General Practitioners (GPs) are the largest group of practising generalists. Yet GPs fulfil multiple roles and the pressures of delivering these roles along with wider contextual changes create real challenges to generalist practice...
December 2013: JRSM Short Reports