PURPOSE Primary care practices in the United Kingdom have received substantial financial
rewards for achieving standards set out in the Quality and Outcomes Framework since April …

The health belief model, explaining health and illness behaviour, is 25 years old. Criticisms
of the model have included its abstract nature and its emphasis on the rationality of patients' …

OBJECTIVE--To determine the patterns of consultations with the general practitioner among
different ethnic groups and the outcome of these consultations. DESIGN--Retrospective …

THE NHS reforms of the last few years have changed the face of British general practice.
Needs assessment forms the basis of the planning process. Increasing numbers of general …

BACKGROUND: With the advent of general practitioner fundholding, there has been growth
in outreach clinics covering many specialties. The benefits and costs of this model of service …

The new contract encourages health promotion in general practice. The aim of this study
was to explore the pattern of provision of health promotion clinics across one family health …

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are those largely ignored by medical science, partly
because they do not represent a viable commercial market for private pharmaceutical …

Among 214 patients consulting their general practitioner with upper respiratory tract infection,
differences in expectation were apparent between Whites, Afro-Caribbeans and Asians. …

CENTRAL to the recent changes in the National Health Service has been the separation of
those responsible for providing health services from those responsible for purchasing …

OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of achieving the target of 95% coverage for the childhood
immunisation schedule by 1995 and to determine the influence of sociodemographic …