Focuses on the working papers on the main proposals for the government's white paper, Working for Patients in Great Britain. Practice budget for general practitioners; Pressure on drug expenditure; Improvement of quality of care; Role of general managers in the leadership of the Family Practitioners Committee.
Bunch, Christopher, Atherton, S.T., Free, Caroline, McKee, Martin, Cockcroft, Anne, and Williams, Sian
Subjects
*PAPER, *MEDICAL care
Abstract
Presents comments on the impact of white paper on the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain. Assertions on the significance and focus of the paper in specialist services; Comments on the significance of chapters four, five and six of the paper; Account on the effect of the paper on minority groups.
Focuses on the rejection of the general practitioners of the government's National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. Rejection of the government's proposal for general practitioners; Views regarding the white paper of the NHS; Compatibility of the concepts of the white paper with the principles of the NHS.
Reports the warning on the dangers of the white paper by the Northern Ireland council. Agreement on three main criticism of the white paper; Absence of improved patient care despite introduction of management of doctors; Lack of emphasis on community health in the white paper.
Focuses on the comments of Royal College of Physicians and General Medical Council on the white paper 'Working for Patients in London, England. Introduction of pilot schemes; Reservations on the free market systems in the National Health Services; Debate on the potential effects of the white paper on medical educational and research.
Comments on the government's objectives for health services in Great Britain. Need for the support of the people; Dismissal of the proposed general practice budgets and self-governing hospitals; Details of the objectives of the white paper.
Published
1989
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