The comments made by Clare Gerada and Ben Riley in the November issue of the BJGP1 resonate well with my own views.
Together with fellow GPs in Cape Town, South Africa from 1995–2000, we set up a pilot model of delivering primary care under the auspices of the Health Development Institute a community-based research non-governmental organisation (NGO).2 This pilot entailed GPs reaching out to the community through participatory workshops involving …