TY - JOUR T1 - Illness in a summer holiday camp JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 616 LP - 620 VL - 26 IS - 169 AU - R. V. H. Jones Y1 - 1976/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/26/169/616.abstract N2 - (1) The medical needs of patients staying at a holiday camp during the summer of 1974 have been analysed. (2) Medical advice was sought from a doctor about half as often as would have been expected from a comparable population at home, but the camp nurse saw three times as many patients as the doctor. (3) The clinical content of the consultation was analysed. (4) The outcome of the consultations and the role played by the nurse are discussed. ER -