Background Health information technology (HIT) may be used to improve care for increasing
numbers of older people with long term conditions (LTCs) who make high demands on …

An ethnographic study using overt non-participatory observation was used to investigate
confidentiality breaches in 13 GP practice reception and/or waiting areas in Lincolnshire. Staff …

Background While primary care systematically offers conventional cardiovascular risk
assessment, genetic tests for coronary heart disease (CHD) are increasingly commercially …

Background A number of protected learning time schemes have been set up in primary care
across the United Kingdom but there has been little published evidence of their impact on …

… of the middle mass experiences various … middle mass will grow in size and influence, that
education and income levels will continue to rise, and assuming (with less confidence) that job …

… if somebody has to have a benzodiazepine occasionally to make their lives tolerable then
that's not a bad price to pay and if that helps them to get through life and to survive their job, …

… By examining national housing, education and employment policies implemented at the
state and local levels, Keesha Middlemass shows how the law challenges and undermines …

… Jo Middlemass has a nursing background and has worked in general practice and in NHS
management as well as in NHS and university research. Her more recent research career at …

Background All general practitioners (GPs) are expected to have an appraisal from 2002
and the first cohort will experience revalidation in 2005. Although there is a link between …

Juxtaposing the sociology of time with the sociological study of punishment, we interviewed
34 former inmates to explore their memories of how they constructed time while “doing a bid.…