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>SUMMARY
>I describe a method of combining the consultant's knowledge of resources,
>and of other GPs' patients' urgency with the GP's knowledge of the
>individual patient's urgency.
>The advantages are to offer a more accurate or at least informed appraisal,
>tooffer it automatically to every pateint rather than to those who complain
>or are fortunate in having a more active GP or a personal relationship
>withtheir GP, to automate* the process so it is repeatedly and accurately
>carried out; to remove a proportion of telephone pleading and second letter
>writing from GPs, and reading them from consultants.
>
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>*even if it is done with a deck of cards.
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>Dr Adrian Midgley GP Exeter
I am not sure I could handle the responsibility.
I would, however, be happy to put an anonymised list
up in the waiting room and let the rest of the patients
cast their votes.
Doug Jenkinson
Keyworth Health Centre, Bunny Lane, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5JU.
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