take me with you Jim!!!!

Stewart!


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> From: James Kennedy <[log in to unmask]>
> To: 'Prof "Moon" Mullins' <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: FW: FP, HMO's and Telephone Triage in the US
> Date: 15 January 1998 10:31
> 
> 
> 
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> From:  James Kennedy[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:  07 January 1998 15:39
> To:  'Family-L List'
> Subject:  FP, HMO's and Telephone Triage in the US
> 
> Dear Colleagues
> 
> I will be visiting Charleston, South Carolina in the first 6 days of
February to attend the AAFP Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Meeting.
> 
> While in the area I have a few days of free time on my hands and would be
very interested in meeting US colleagues involved / interested in three
main areas of health care
> 
> 1)  Nurse based telephone triage.  I am a founder member of a large
Out-Of-Hours Cooperative in North East London that provides the
out-of-office-hours cover for 450+ GPS (approx 1 million pts).  Over 50% of
our contacts are dealt with by nurses supported and guided by diagnoses and
management guidelines based on a computer database called TAS...a clinical
decision support package developed in the UK NHS.  
> 2)  HMOs.   The new Labour governments  White Paper on Health proposes
setting up a primary care led NHS based on "consortia" of GPs and other
primary care providers who would be responsible for the prescribing,
secondary care and community care budgets of populations of about 100,000
patients per unit.  Obvious lessons for the UK to learn from US experience
before we re-invent the square wheel
>  I would be delighted to correspond with, and if possible meet, US
colleagues involved in similar areas of interest.
> 3)  Academic Family Medicine.   I am a GP based in Hayes, in Middlesex,
in the North East Suburbs of London England.  I also hold the post of
Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the Dept of Primary Care and General
Practice Imperial College, London (The new organization formed by the
amalgamation of St Marys Medical School, Charing Cross & Westminster
Medical School and Imperial College of Science and Technology.  
>  Very best wishes for 1998
>  
>  James Kennedy
>  
>  
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