Primary care and general practice

EDITOR,—In their editorial on the primary health care team Pauline Pearson and Kevin Jones fail to ask one fundamental question: does “primary care” exist?1 Increasingly, primary care is used as a synonym for general practice. For an example of this, one need look no further than Kathryn L Evans's review of sinusitis, in which she writes that “most uncomplicated acute sinusitis is managed in Britain in primary care.”2 This is one of hundreds of …