... Interprofessional collaboration Narrative Organizational myths General practice Case study The Healthy Mind Intervention is a complex mental health intervention offering problem-solving therapy (PST) to patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and/or ischemic heart disease (IHD) who also experience mental...

...Verna Smith Purpose Policymakers implementing pay-for-performance schemes within general practice should seek to design schemes which work with rather than against the professional values and goals of general practitioners. In this way, schemes are more likely to enhance the practitioners...

... and promote the uptake of the core treatments recommended in the NICE OA guidance (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2008) in general practice. Full details of the cluster randomized control trial and intervention can be obtained from the study protocol (Dziedzic et al., 2014...

... and open-ended approach was taken towards the generation of themes. Focus groups England Planning Involvement General practice Patients Patient involvement in the planning of health services is often promoted as a necessary adjunct to patient-centred care, but it is often assumed...

... at: s.j.abbott@city.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Primary care General practice Organizational structures Bureaucracy England Wales AsFH tended to be devised and implemented locally. A government‐steered model arose as a result: GP commissioning pilots, in which health...

... practice. Design/methodology/approach This article was based on an in‐depth qualitative case study approach in two general practices in England. Findings A distinction is emerging amongst ostensibly equal partners between those general practitioners conducting and those subject to surveillance...

... general practice staff perceive the impact? Design/methodology/approach The article is based on comparative in‐depth case studies of four UK practices. Findings There was a discrepancy between changes observed and the way practice staff described the impact of the contract. Similar patterns...

.... The comments could be divided into five categories: staff issues; managerial/organisational issues; quality; objectives; and negative factors. Most gave more than one comment about their pilots. © MCB UP Limited 2003 General practice Contracts Health authorities Change management Health...

... cent were practice led and 30 per cent led by a trust. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Evaluation Project management Doctors General practice United Kingdom Contracts The first wave personal medical services (PMS) pilots started in April 1998 and are the product of specific structural...

... a lack of time is perceived by GP therapists as a serious constraint upon their CAM practice and also how they employ a number of strategies in an attempt to overcome such difficulties. Medicine General practice National Health Service United Kingdom Over recent years there has been...

... Primary care National Health Service Health services Health care Health authorities General practice With the publication of the NHS (Primary Care) Act of 1997 and the NHS White Paper “The New NHS: modern, dependable” in 1998, the way forward for primary care organizations in the UK became...

... successful, including pre‐referral examination by a WVHC GP with a special clinical interest, and referral to physiotherapy rather than to orthopaedic services. Respondents who took these decisions had a good grasp of related issues: © MCB UP Limited 2000 Health care General practice National...

...‐holding , London School of Economics, Toyota Centre, London . Harrison , S . (1997), The Worth Valley Health Consortium: Evaluation Report , University of Leeds Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds . Harrison , S . and Choudhry , N . (1996), “ General practice fundholding...

... and used to operating as part of a partnership, GPs might be expected to take more readily to management. The purpose of this paper is to report findings from a series of interviews with lead partners which addressed the issue of why they undertook the role. This focus upon doctors in general practice...

.... Management arrangements were central to this success. Similar considerations will be of crucial importance for the PCGs which are considerably larger and more complex organisations than the TPPs. © MCB UP Limited 1999 General practice Management Health authorities Purchasing United Kingdom...

... competences combined with a drive to “review” their organisations. © MCB UP Limited 1998 General practice National Health Service Partnering Trusts United Kingdom The latter point reflects the seventh and final reason for new professional partnerships developing ‐ the nature...

...Sandra Hogarth‐Scott; Gillian Wright Examines the debate on quality in health care in light of GP fundholding and the Patients’ charter. Focuses on the development of quality issues in General Practice by carrying out research based on two stages: first, an exploratory stage aimed...

... ” (letter), ritish Journal of General Practice, Vol. 45 No. 395, pp. 325‐6. Helman , C. (1996 , “ The application of anthropological methods in general practice research ”, Family Practice , Vol. 13 , supplement 1, pp. S13‐S16. Iliffe , S. , Tai , S.S. , Gould , G. e...

.... Demonstrates that effective management structure is vital to future success for general practice. To achieve this involves understanding new managerial challenges practices must meet and different organizational competences required. To change requires a radical restructure of many practice roles and several...

... structures and managers were more likely to act as practice administrators with limited autonomy. Concludes that practice managers are playing an increasingly important role in general practice. Also that the influential role of the practice manager in the development of practice policies and the transfer...