TY - JOUR T1 - Is There a Polyclinic Alternative Acceptable to General Practice? The ‘Beacon’ Practice Model JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 733 LP - 733 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X342453 VL - 58 IS - 555 AU - Claire Jackson AU - Deborah Askew Y1 - 2008/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/555/733.abstract N2 - Much has been written of late regarding the threat to UK general practice posed by the current NHS reform process.1,2 Australia, facing the same change drivers, similarly faces a raft of reforms which promise to challenge established general practice. In 2007, the University of Queensland (UQ) in partnership with the state health department, developed the ‘Primary Care Amplification Model’ (PCAM),3 as a means to build on the existing national general practice infrastructure in changing times, rather than destabilise it.The PCAM harnesses the collective strengths of local community general practices to respond to today's heavy reform agenda. The model builds primary care capacity by uniting local general practices around a central ‘beacon’ practice, similar to the federated model of primary care, endorsed … ER -