PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M G Scott
TI  - Out of the fire and into the frying pan: thoughts in anticipation of a new contract.
DP  - 1989 Feb 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 73--75
VI  - 39
IP  - 319
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/39/319/73.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/39/319/73.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1989 Feb 01; 39
AB  - In anticipation of the government's review of the National Health Service an inner city doctor considers some of the issues raised by a contract which will challenge the general practitioner to manage a budget for both primary and secondary care and will require standards of care to be audited. There will be difficult clinical, management and ethical problems ahead, but these are capable of being solved. Such a contract holds out the prospect of enhanced health care for patients and a more fulfilled professional life for general practitioners.