TY - JOUR T1 - Out-of-hours care JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 546 LP - 546 DO - 10.3399/bjgp13X673955 VL - 63 IS - 615 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2013/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/63/615/546.1.abstract N2 - Twenty-four hour responsibility for a registered patient list was one of the cardinal features of NHS general practice for many years. In the almost unimaginable days before mobile telephones, a relatively untrained spouse often had the unenviable task of triaging phone calls from worried patients and trying to track down the GP who was out on calls, perhaps with a cumbersome radio-telephone with unreliable reception. These unsatisfactory and potentially unsafe arrangements were gradually … ER -