TY - JOUR T1 - The end is not nigh JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 995 LP - 995 VL - 57 IS - 545 AU - Steven Iliffe Y1 - 2007/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/545/995.1.abstract N2 - Roger Jones'1 gloomy prognostications about general practice and the health service show that fashion is cyclic. Sixteen years ago Duncan Keeley, writing in the BMJ, was equally anxious about the future of general practice and even predicted Professor Darzi's polyclinics.2 In the meantime general practice has flourished. Each contractual shift has induced a temporary dip in job satisfaction and a sustained increase in income, making British GPs the highest paid family doctors in Europe. A … ER -