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16608586

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-4-12
pubmed:abstractText
General practitioners with special interests (GPSIs) have emerged in the UK as a government initiative aimed at improving access in specialities that traditionally have long waiting times for investigations and treatment. This represents, to some extent, a formalisation of existing working practices of general practitioners who had obtained specialist experience during hospital training. GPSIs are working in a wide range of clinical areas including coronary heart disease, drug abuse, echocardiography and sexual health. Similar changes at the primary-secondary care interface are taking place in other European health systems. Key issues in the development of these services include the assurance of high-quality health care, clinical governance and risk management, cost-effectiveness and impact on outpatient care, and the work and role of specialists. It is possible that these new opportunities for general practitioners and other health care professions will aid recruitment and retention of staff in primary care, enhance education and encourage commissioners of services to look carefully at unmet needs in their health economies. Further challenges include the need to train a cadre of practitioners and to provide the research evidence on which to base continued investment in this promising initiative.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
H
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1355-8196
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
106-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
General practitioners with special interests: evolution and evaluation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of General Practice & Primary Care, King's College, London, UK. roger.jones@kcl.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't