Professional and practice development plans for primary care teams

BMJ 1998;316:1619-1620 ( 30 May )

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Professional and practice development plans for primary care teams

Life after the postgraduate education allowance

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The spread between the best and the worst of the 10 000 practices in the United Kingdom is wide. In a matter of minutes wecan travel from paperless practices with integrated teams whichhave developed nurse practitioners, physiotherapy, and in housephlebotomy to those where the prescribing is suspect and the consultationsperfunctory $---$ all performed with the sole aids of prescription pads,sick notes, and unchecked sphygnomanometers. Like the gap betweenevidence and practice, there is a gap too between continuing medicaleducation and professional and practice development.

Professional and practice development plans aim to fill that gap and are destined to replace the postgraduate education allowance.The concept is a direct result of the Chief Medical Officer'sreview of continuing professional development in general practice,which adds another surge of energy to the "corporate" rather thanthe "independent practitioner" vision of primary care. The reviewwas a response to . . . [Full text of this article]

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