Primary care groups
The cover of this week's issue, whose theme is a primary health care led NHS, quotes from one of the most illustrated episodes in Gulliver's Travels. Malcolm Willet has adapted Milo Winter's depiction of Gulliver capturing the enemy fleet.
Much of this week's journal is devoted to primary care groups, the latest attempt to arrive at the optimal configuration of health services in Britain.
Whether these groups represent a great leap forward or are just another staging post on the route to nowhere remains to be seen.
After reading what we've published this
week, why not share
your thoughts with us?
This week's articles
EDITORIALS
Reforming British primary care (again)
Community development, user involvement, and primary health care
GENERAL PRACTICE
Unified budgets for primary care groups
Setting budgets for general practice in the new NHS
A model for clinical governance in primary care groups
Towards primary care groups Managing the future in Bradford
EDUCATION AND DEBATE
For and against: Should we fight to preserve the independent status of general practitioners?
LETTERS