<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Greenhalgh, Trish</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Future-proofing relationship-based care: a priority for general practice</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014-11-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">580-580</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp14X682357</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">64</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">628</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trish Greenhalgh asked the College Annual Scientific Meeting in October how we can preserve the therapeutic doctor–patient relationships that are at the centre of general practice.I began my talk by describing (with consent) two patients whom I had seen in my surgery the previous week. One I had known for many years; the other was newly registered. Both had multiple chronic conditions that had affected them physically, cognitively, emotionally, and economically. Through a brief analysis of these ‘cases’, I illustrated how effective care in general practice is delivered through, and enhanced by, a strong therapeutic relationship.We know in our bones (as a result of everything our patients have taught us over the years) that knowing our patients is not merely a matter of adding up the test results or filling in the QOF template. Managing our patients is not merely about making the occasional evidence-based decision and playing every member of the multidisciplinary team to their strengths. It is also, of course, about following the story of the person in context: the individual nested in the family, nested in the community — …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>