PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - P. L. Knox TI - The accessibility of primary care to urban patients: a geographical analysis DP - 1979 Mar 01 TA - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners PG - 160--168 VI - 29 IP - 200 4099 - http://bjgp.org/content/29/200/160.short 4100 - http://bjgp.org/content/29/200/160.full SO - J R Coll Gen Pract1979 Mar 01; 29 AB - Techniques of analysis now used in geography can be applied to general practice. They show that the locations of general practitioners' premises are not randomly distributed and are not related to the sites of populations or to patients in greatest need of medical services. The findings suggest a concentration of surgeries in middle class areas and lack of surgeries in areas of low social class.