TY - JOUR T1 - Kennedy Report JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 939 LP - 939 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X544195 VL - 60 IS - 581 AU - Mike Fitzpatrick Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/581/939.abstract N2 - ‘As one senior GP put it to me, “some GPs don't even know how to hold a baby”1In compiling his review of children's services commissioned by the NHS Executive, Professor Sir Ian Kennedy tells us that he ‘travelled around England and spoke to a great many people’.1 Indeed, an appendix lists hundreds of authorities he consulted and institutions he visited. Yet, although he has a great deal to say about GPs and general practice, he seems not to have set foot in a single surgery and to have spoken to only one GP — Professor Steve Field, the then chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Professor … ER -