TY - JOUR T1 - Lessons from the intravenous room in Hangzhou JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 754 LP - 754 VL - 57 IS - 542 AU - Sally A Hull Y1 - 2007/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/542/754.abstract N2 - In 2006 I went with a delegation from Queen Mary and City Universities to a community health conference in Hangzhou, the university town of Zhejiang Province on the east coast of China. There is a great interest in developing primary health services in this vast continent of 1.3 billion people, and we took a team which included primary care researchers, a clinical effectiveness group, and educationalists.When China began to open up in 1986 there was a rapid growth in hospital provision. In urban areas there is an oversupply of technology-rich hospitals, with high prices and competitive policies. Although official national policy since 1997 has been to develop community health centres this has been constantly undermined by a failure to regulate new entrants to the hospital market, and by … ER -