BMJ 1996;313:1085 (26 October)

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Home visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales

Home visits are a feature of primary care in many western European countries

EDITOR,--Paul Aylin and colleagues' paper on home visiting in general practice perpetuates one of the many myths concerning the NHS.1 It is not true that home visiting "is one of the factors that distinguish primary care in Britain from primary care in many other Western countries." Home visits are a feature of primary care in many Western countries, and also in the former socialist countries of central and eastern Europe. In 1994 they accounted for about 3% of face to face consultations in general practice in Denmark, under 1% in Finland, 19% in France, 9% in Germany, 5% in Greece, 3% in Israel, 11% in Italy, 9% in the Netherlands, 2% in Portugal, 3% in Spain, 2% in Sweden, and 7% in the United Kingdom.2 This makes the United Kingdom about average for western Europe. Among central . . . [Full text of this article]


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Home visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales
Paul Aylin, F Azeem Majeed, and Derek G Cook
BMJ 1996 313: 207-210. [Abstract] [Full Text]

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