>From: Katie Law <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Untitled/goodvbad
>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:41:37 +0000
Katie Law noted the difference between what pateints want
and what doctors concentrate more on, at least when
discussing general practice.
I would pick out the efforts which the Dept of Health and
other bits of Govt, as expressed through the health
Authorities (whose background is rather more secndary than
primary, and whose medical input tends to be from public
health/epidemiology doctors rather than GPs) which they
complain from time to time are difficult, or opposed or not
welcomed by GPs - to drive GPs into organisation rather
than seeing patients when they ask to be seen, and about
what they want to be seen.
Question is, if patients found they were getting this
rather than what they apparently say they want, would they
vote for HA members or local reps on PCGs who wanted this,
or for ones whose platform was more in line with the
patients' expressed wants.
Something to thnk about as we organise the new regime.
> Patients seem to want
>availability and accessibility, to have all explained in detail when it
>comes to their specific illness; Doctors' views put more emphasis on
the
>organisational aspects of care - I wonder if this would hold true for
>English GPs? - it wouldn't be surprising given the management tasks
that
>have been forced on to GPs over the past few years.
>
>A good GP now seems to have more to do with the delivery of healthcare
>rather than the diagnosis and treatment of illness...
> adapted from: Marshall Marinker
> The Future of General Practice
> RCGP reference book 97/98
>--
>Katie Law
>
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