The primary health care team : report / of a joint working group of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee and the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee.

  • Great Britain. Joint working group on the Primary Health Care Team.
Date:
1981
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Credit: The primary health care team : report / of a joint working group of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee and the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pS te ote se Vil. 1s se By x. These should include arrangements to encourage earlier voluntary retirement of elderly GPs with small lists. Such lists should not be advertised as single practice vacancies but should either be absorbed by neighbouring group practices, which should be allowed to increase the number of partners as necessary, or contribute to the formation of a new group practice. In addition such measures should include investigations of the possibility of those GPs already working in group practices and partnerships voluntarily agreeing to limit, or zone, their practice areas and a review of MPC procedures to encourage the appointment of GPs likely to be favourably disposed towards the idea of teamwork; measures to improve the quality of practice premises in declining urban areas, including providing help to GPs to expand or otherwise improve their practice premises to provide a base for a primary health care team, should be pursued and where appropriate given more publicity; the General Practice Finance Corporation, in exercising its extended powers under section of the Health Services Act 1980 to buy and lease back practice premises to GPs, should give priority to the improvement of practice premises in declining urban areas; where GPs who are in unsatisfactory premises which so not lend themselves to improvement wish to be accommodated in health centres, health authorities in declining urban areas should give priority to their provision; where recruitment of successors to single-handed GPs working in declining urban areas is going to be difficult unless the opportunity of working in a primary health care team from suitable premises can be offered, health authorities should consider building a health centre in advance of need; positive discrimination should be exercised in relation to health visitor and distri ing in declining urban areas, and further fact finding and operational studies should be carried out with a view to establishing how recruitment and continuity of service can best be encouraged; to that end the possibility of providing housing at a reasonable rental including the Seon o ascomodstion in hospitals no longer required by hospital staff should be pursued; and training resources on training more mature nurses, and should provide where appropriate part-time courses for nurses with domestic commitments.