GPs in Glasgow are in favour of primary care emergency centres

BMJ 1996;312:1610 (22 June)

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GPs in Glasgow are in favour of primary care emergency centres

EDITOR,--Val Lattimer and colleagues ascertained views aboutthe future provision of out of hours primary medical care fromgeneral practitioners who were members of two research networks;their response rate was 74% (n=199).¹ A similar survey was carriedout among the 610 general practitioners registered with GreaterGlasgow Health Board; the response rate of the doctors was also74% (n=454), and that of the practices was 88%. The objectivewas to find out the extent to which proposals for developingprimary care emergency centres were in tune with professionalopinion and, therefore, the likelihood of their acceptance.

Of the general practitioners in Greater Glasgow who respondedto the survey, 327 used a commercial deputising service outof hours. More than half of those who responded (238) thoughtthat primary care emergency centres should be established butthat home visits out of hours should continue for those requiringthem. Most general . . . [Full text of this article]

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