Future Options For General Practice

This book is about GPs who are stimulated by change and are looking for creative alternatives to conventional thinking. They see the worldwide emphasis in primary care as an opportunity for professional development. Some GPs resent the challenges that come with change, but others are stimulated by them and see the opportunities this represents. The book draws on the practical experience of GPs, health service managers, and other members of the primary health care team who are already involved in radical new schemes to raise standards of health care delivery in the community. Lessons can be learned from their experience so that other innovators can adapt and apply their benefits in primary care.

For those GPs who are stimulated by change to seek creative alternatives to conventional thinking, this work draws on the experience of members of the primary health care team who are already involved in radical new schemes to raise standards of health care delivery in the community. While some resent the challenges that are the inevitable consequence of change, others are stimulated to seek creative alternatives to conventional thinking. For them the worldwide emphasis in primary care represents unprecedented opportunities for professional development which no previous generation has enjoyed. This book draws on the practical experience of GPs, health service managers and other members of the primary health care team who are already involved in radical new schemes to raise standards of health care delivery in the community. Lessons can be learned from their experience so that other innovators can adapt and apply their benefits in primary care.