The Evolution of British General Practice 1850-1948

Anne Digby

Oxford University Press, £48, pp 376

ISBN 19 820513 9

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Efficient health care requires the careful tuning of medical services to the needs of individual patients. One of the core functions of general practice is to enable this liaison between the lay and the professional system, and from this function follows most of the academic development of general practice in the past decade. It is clear that academic general practice thrives in particular when its position is carved in the laws and regulations of the healthcare system. This is the case in Britain and the Netherlands, which has facilitated exchange of …