Description
Exploring aspects of the move towards a primary care-led health service, this book considers questions such as user involvement in primary care. It examines the view from hospitals, and the roles of general practice teams. It also examines the interface between primary care and social care. The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre series provides policy makers, commissioners, managers, primary care professionals and user organizations with multi-disciplinary research on issues which inform future decision making for primary care development. Exploring aspects of the move towards a primary care-led health service, this book considers questions such as user involvement in primary care. Asking whether this system will improve care, it examines the view from hospitals, and the evolving roles of general practice teams. It also considers the interface between primary care and social care. In addition, the book looks at the place of patients' views in mental health service provision, and stresses the importance of a research perspective on the changing face of primary health care.